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LitigationMattson — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:33:10 GMT

LitigationMattson: /* Golbol Easter Egg */

== 10 years! ==

Nice toon. I added this to the filmography of mr. bland and señor's charecter pages. I'm glad they re-did the old book. and there is another thing that I saw, when señor gets crushed, it says "sbloncheked" or what ever sb's candy bar was.
[[User:Cessna Man!|Cessna Man!]] 23:43, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
:I really liked this toon. It really captures the series' appeal. Who's doing the transcript for this, by the way? I hope they get done soon. We should put up pictures of Senor, Mr. Bland, etc.'s new forms on their pages. And also, Senor's voice doesn't sound like Matt's; think it could've been done by someone else?-[[User:Brightstar Shiner|Brightstar Shiner]] 00:00, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:I'm almost certain that Mr. Bland was voiced by Mike. Anyone know for sure? --[[User:Bigscarymike|BigScaryMike]] 01:52, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::Plain ol' Matt's voice. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 12:13, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::I added all the pictures, so that's done. {{User:The Joe/sig}} 15:08, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Not on main page? ==

Does anyone else not see this on the Main Pages? Should this be included as a Fun Fact of some kind?
:I see it there. Maybe clear your cache? {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 00:47, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Introduction ==

The intro says that Homestar enters the contest yet again. This seems a little misleading, as the toon is a modernization, not a sequel, as the intro could imply.

:Looks like that's been changed {{User:The Joe/sig}} 15:09, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Everybody Loves The Homestar Runner ==

doesnt he say "Everybody loves THE me" not "loves a'me"? that would make more sense to me. --([[User:Superplough|superplough]] not logged in) [[User:132.181.7.1|132.181.7.1]] 02:01, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:He does say "the me." You can go ahead and change that. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 02:06, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Mega Man Introductions? ==

I think that Mr. Bland, Señor, and The Robot's introductions may be references to games from the [[Wikipedia:Mega_Man_(series)|Mega Man series]], in which the bosses are introduced with a snazzy background, a pose, and a sound effect before you begin their levels. Or, is this a more general reference? {{User:Trey56/sig}} 02:07, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

:The opening to The New Leave it to Beaver Show introduced the cast in a similar fashion if I remember correctly. Can't find any substantiating images though. Does it have to be a reference? Maybe it's just a visually interesting way to introduce characters. [[User:PolarBoy|PolarBoy]] 02:37, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Slo-Mo Action ==

Currently, the article page says that Homestar's slo-mo kicking of The Cheat is a reference to Super Mario Strikers. I think that it's actually a reference to The Matrix.

Hmmm... I dont think its necessarily a Matrix reference...its just in slow motion. the camera doesnt rotate around Homestar like the famous "bullet time" effect usually does. To me it just looks like a bicycle kick.
- [[User:Del Taco?|Del Taco?]] 02:49, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:Yeah, you're probably right. But I don't think TBC would make a reference to Super Mario Strikers. {{User:The_Spainish_Inquisition/sig}} 03:24, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

TBC have mentioned in an Interview (can't remember which one) that they are fans of Nintendo games, it is possible that they would reference Super Mario Striker, In SMS if a player passes the ball to a teammate in front of the Goal and the recieving teammate holds down the shoot button, the game will go into slow motion and the reciving teammate will do one of many different styles of Kicks,The most popular one Being the exact same move that Homestar did on Teh C. Also regarding the fact that it may be actually a reference to The Matrix, I recall no such move being used in any of the Matrix movies, [[User:Dctcool|Dctcool]]

It actually reminded me most of Shaolin Soccer... but that could be because I just watched it today.
:It reminds me of a lot of martial arts movies, but not one in particular that springs to mind.--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:58, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::Does anyone have a video of that specific kick from Super Mario Strikers? {{User:The_Spainish_Inquisition/sig}} 14:51, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

==I still alive?==
I think Senor says "I see the light!" Instead of "I still alive"! I see the light is much funnier. The Chaps would go for I See The Light!-Me
: I hear "I still alive," funny or not. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 02:48, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:I originally thought it was "i see the light", but i think "I still alive" makes more sense with the way he waves his hand up through the grapes. And his bad grammar does fit with hes dialect. -[[User:Del Taco?|Del Taco?]] 02:52, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
: I was just about to add a discussion on this line. I hear, "I ''feel'' alive!" His accent is a little hard to decipher, so I don't see this ending well. Prepare for weeks of arguing...--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 02:54, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::FWIW, the first time I heard it I heard "I steel alive!" and it was hilarious. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 03:03, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::I heard "I steel alive" [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 03:19, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
[[Media:Alive.ogg|The first quote in question]]--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 03:27, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::I heard "I see de light!" {{User:The_Spainish_Inquisition/sig}} 03:35, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::It is clearly "I steel alive" {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 03:44, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
After watching it a few timew I thought that it was I see de light [[User:Smallowman|Smallowman]] 04:00, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::I hear "I still alive!", too.--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:56, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::::"I still alive!" —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 12:15, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== All right, you crap-for-brains ==

What is it that the Grape Fairie is saying in his first line. I can't tell what it is, but it doesn't sound anything like "stupid" to me. Thoughts? --{{User:Jay/sig}} 02:55, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:My first guess is "sorry brains", but I'm not sure enough to change the transcript.--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 02:59, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::Perhaps "slowest brains"? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 03:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

:: ive just listeend to it a bunch of times and im pretty sure its just one syllable. kinda sounds like "All right you slows brains". Im not really hearing the 2 sylables of slowest and not the "ee" sound of sorry. But yea definatly not "stupid brains" -[[User:Del Taco?|Del Taco?]] 03:13, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
[[Media:Listenup.ogg|The second quote in question]]--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 03:29, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::sounds like: " i'm ready, so you'se brains listen up smart " possibly calling them brains in conjunction with listen up smart. {{User:Csours/sig}} 03:47, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Do you have headphones or speakers, Csours? I'm curious. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 12:19, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::Ohhh yeah, "slows brains" kind of works! I was looking for something that rhymes/sounds like "stoes brains," and I think that's it. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 12:19, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::speakers. i know headphones are better, i just havent got any yet. also i put it on loop on my sound editor and listened to it like 100 times.{{User:Csours/sig}} 14:31, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Unplugged? ==

The first fun fact credits the show MTV Unplugged with the creation of the term unplugged. I think (and am researching) that the term predates the show. [[User:Mila|Mila]] 03:26, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

:"Unplugged" dates back to the beginnings of elictricity. But as a description of music played without extra amplification, MTV gets the credit. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 04:09, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

The unplugged fact is credited both to MTV and Eric Clapton in different sections, which is kind of contradicting itself. One or the other should be taken out.
===Teh Proof===
Quotes from the Oxford English dictionary:
*New York Times, 21 April 1957
*:The return of the unplugged guitar gets another boost from George Van Eps, who was supplying rhythmic chords to jazz groups long before voltage came into fashion.
*Washington Post, 26 December 1986
*:Nils Lofgren unplugged is still Nils Lofgren the musician... Lofgren will give a rare acoustic concert at the Bayou tomorrow.
*Toronto Star, 6 October 1989
*:The simple, six-string folk rhythms of several songs here..owe some of their sincere appeal to the unplugged colors of Tracy Chapman's music.
MTV Unplugged first aired on 26 November, 1989. Lexicography saves the day again! --[[User:60.228.144.21|60.228.144.21]] 08:31, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

:Nice catch... I've reworded the fact to say that MTV popularised it, but didn't coin it. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 08:41, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Reference ==

I recently removed these RWRs from the page:

*Homestar's slow-motion move (a Pele kick) seems similar to a "Slo-mo Cross Shot" from [[Wikipedia:Super_Mario_Strikers|Super Mario Strikers]].
**It could also be a reference to the "Bullet Time" sequences in [[Wikipedia:The_Matrix|The Matrix]].
***Another possibility is they modeled it after the Sphere Shot in [[Wikipedia:Final Fantasy X|Final Fantasy X]].

This seems to me to be the very definition of TTATOT. I'd be glad to entertain discussion to help settle what Homestar's move ''actually'' refers to; however, I kind of suspect it's actually just a generic fighting move and not a reference at all. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 03:37, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

:Heh, I agree. But now that you mention the Sphere Shot...--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 04:12, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

I propose that it is a reference to Shaolin Soccer. Though, actually, like many of the most reasonable people here, I doubt it's a direct reference to -anything-. Still, that kind of manuever is done at least once, if not a few times in Shaolin Soccer, in slo-mo and everything.

It's possible that it references all 3 franchises (except the Matrix as there is no such move in any Matrix movies)

::I don't think it references a single thing. Homestar kicks the cheat around like a soccer ball with generic moves and does an out of the ordinary extra kick in slow motion to emphasize it. It might be inspired by such things but not directly referencing Shaolin Soccer, Matrix or Super Mario Strikers. The ONLY WAY it could be a reference, directly, to any of those is if the moves Homestar is doing are pretty much exactly done like those in the particular move in the game or movie. --{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 18:24, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

==hacky sack vs footbag==

in the transcript, it says that homestar kicks the cheat around like a hacky sack. this is a brand name. footbag is the generic term.{{User:Csours/sig}} 03:39, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
: I never play with hackysacks or footbags, but I don't know anyone who would know what you mean if you say footbag [[User:Inverse Tiger|Inverse Tiger]] 04:25, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::I've never heard the word "footbag", either. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 05:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Ditto--I've heard them called hacky sacks for 20 years (or thereabouts), but I've never heard footbags. It may be a brand name, but it's pretty much been adopted as a generic term (like with Levis or Kleenex).--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:53, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::I've never heard of a footbag ''or'' a hacky sack. Does that mean I'm stupid? [[User:Ppk01|Ppk01]] 12:29, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::I've never heard Levis used as a generic term... --[[User:ComputerBox|ComputerBox]] 15:27, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Actually, the way he kicks it also looks like the way you can bounce a ball in soccer.--{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 18:26, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Page Title ==

Is "The Homestar Runner Enters the Longest Page Title on the Website Contest!" actually the longest page title on the website? [[User:!!|!!]]

: [[User talk:William | Shall we find out?]] [[User:William|William]] 04:04, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::I did my own search by looking up "Page title" on the wiki's search bar and looking through each selection. Turns out this toon doesn't win. See the fun facts for the true winner. - {{User:Joshua/sig}} 05:30, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Wretched Simmons Outfit ==

Homestar's spandex workout uniform is from the Lady Fan E-mail.
:Yep, that's already mentioned there. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

== Enough with the golbol! ==

Alright already! I see that it's captioned as GOLBOL in the Easter egg. I can accept that many, if not all, characters pronounce it "golbol". But, for the love of all that is humane, can we PLEASE use "gold bowl" or "trophy" when we are describing it? Please, oh please. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 04:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:Since you asked so nicely... --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
:: Actually, in the 'toon version, it's never once referred to as a "trophy" or "gold bowl", and only once as just simply a "bowl". Why not call it "Golbol"? --{{User:Jay/sig}} 05:26, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Because it sounds ridiculous...? --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::::[[Suudsu]]. [[The Denzel]]. [[Lord Quackingstick]]. We don't describe these every time they appear after being named, but they have ridiculous names as well. This is a site about silly cartoon animal people. Keep your sense of humor about you. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 06:03, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::From another edit just made on another page, I'm reminded of another such case: [[The Geddup Noise]]. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 06:08, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::I wonder, though, if in the Fun Facts the word golbol would be better placed in quotes, since it's not a real word?--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 07:08, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::Jay, those are established more solidly than this. The spelling "golbol" is solely from an egg which in all likelihood is just a joke in itself on the characters' pronunciation. As Dorian put in an edit summary, it makes it look like we're a bunch of turkeys. This is a knowledge base, not a poultry farm. We should use an odd spelling when it's needed, but not when it doesn't add to meaning. Suudzu - how else would you spell it? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 09:35, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::We had a bit of conversation over this, and it was determined that I would transcribe it as "Golbol". Sorry if there's been any confusion. — {{User:Lapper/sig}} 12:34, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::"More solidly?" Lord Quackingstick's name is mentioned all of once. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 15:39, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::::Sure. Strong Bad unquestionably says "Quackingstick". It's a duck on a stick, the name makes perfect sense. Here, we are transcribing a word based on Homestar's and The Grape Faerie's accents, which we never do. The only supporting evidence is the egg, which could easily be itself making a joke about how those two pronounced it. I mean, concensus will win, and I can see the argument for, but I'm of the mind we ought not do this in the transcript. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 21:22, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::::Doesn't spelling it out in the Easter egg as they did carry a lot of weight, just as if Strong Bad had typed it or if it were featured as a Quote of the Week? I mean, it sure ''sounds'' like they're saying "golbol" and not "gold bowl" to me, so there's not the problem of the two not matching. Oh, to add to Jay's list of examples: "zader matermorts". — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 22:41, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::::::Yeah, but that's only because of the Easter egg. Do you really think you would transcribe it as "golbol" if you hadn't seen it? Also, you guys are making a big deal out of it. Just because it's listed as "GOLBOL" doesn't mean that it wouldn't be "''the'' golbol" otherwise. And just typing out "golbol" makes me queasy. ¤ {{User:The Mu/sig}} 22:51, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::::::No, if it weren't for the Easter egg, then there's no way I would transcribe it "golbol"... but there ''is'' the Easter egg. Are we just supposed to ignore it? In fact, I can't see any reason for the Easter egg's existence other than to give the correct spelling of the trophy's name. I therefore have no problem with calling it "the golbol" in the transcript, and in fact we may should call it "the Golbol" (a proper noun). — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Strongest Man in the World Poster ==

If I am not mistaken, it features the "Big Beefy Arm" from Trogdor fame.
:I think it's just a generic beefy arm. Y'know, coz it's a strength contest and all. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
:::I agree, just a generic arm.--{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 18:28, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:: I thought it looked like the same beefy arms from [[Dragon]], too. --[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:44, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== LotR reference? ==

It's a stretch, but I thought I'd bring it up here. When Pom Pom has the trophy at the end, Homestar says he should give it to him for his birthday, which of course was today. This is like when Gollum's friend got the Ring and Gollum demanded it for his birthday, which was that day. Of course Homestar didn't kill Pom Pom... but could they be related? I don't feel sure enough about it to add it without some agreement [[User:Inverse Tiger|Inverse Tiger]] 04:25, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No. No offense, but is there a single line in all of H*R which isn't a reference, by this standard? Anonymous has spoken. [[User:89.1.17.101|89.1.17.101]] 04:52, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::OK, anonymous, there's no need to be insistent. But I do think you're right that this reference is a stretch. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 05:04, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:D-d-definitely, definitely a stretch [[User:Jetpac|Jetpac]] 05:12, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Extra Sauce? ==

I think that Homestar acutally says "Extra Sauce" instead of exercise.
:I heard Extracise
:: Me too, though I thought of it as "Extrasize". --[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:47, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Correction--the first incident, it sounds like "extra size", the second it sounds like he says "pour on that extra sauce".--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 07:06, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::I'll second that.--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 07:47, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::sounds like extro-sauze to me, but it could easily be both. {{User:The Joe/sig}} 15:24, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Pure Pwnage Reference ==

Okay, this is DEFINITELY a reference, stop deleting it. I will make my case clear here.

Pure Pwnage is a somewhat popular internet-show. They did an episode where the main character sat at a desk with a Compy 386 and answered emails EXACTLY like Strong Bad does. Naturally, someone pointed this out to TBC and they threw him a bone by making this reference:
When Strong Bad writes to Homestar telling him he can achieve anything and then stops and says "you're a butt", this is a reference to the episode of Pure Pwnage (which references Strong Bad Emails) where Jeremy answers emails like Strong Bad and he tells someone who professes to 'like boys more than girls' that he should stay true to who he is and then erases it and writes "u r a fag".
Clearly these are the exact same principle. Starting out telling someone that they can 'acheve anything' and 'stay true to who you are' and then saying to them "you're a butt" or "u r a fag" is a TOTAL DIRECT reference. They cant use the word "fag" on Homestar Runner, and Strong Bad wouldnt write "u r" They abbreviated the best they could.
:Except that kind of joke is as old as the hills.--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:48, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::Character ''x'' does something absurdly out of character, realises what s/he's doing, stops, and reverts back to in character. This isn't exactly a new formula. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 07:03, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:Yeah, sorry, agree with the people above me. Not a reference. It's just Strong Bad signing 50 autographs in a row without looking up, then realizing he's signing one for Homestar.--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 07:50, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:Agreed. This is not worth getting on a soapbox over. It's an old joke. [[User:Danny Lilithborne|Danny Lilithborne]] 07:53, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Down Goes Bland ==

Someone is out to take out all of my references that are blazingly clear here, so i'm gonna write another discussion one.
"Down goes Bland" is a reference to Howard Cosell's ringside calling of the Foreman Vs Frazier fight where when George Foreman won, Howard Cosell repeatedly shouted "Down goes Frazier!"
C'mon, its a competition, one of them goes down and they yell "Down Goes <Last Name>"
What more do you want Phlip?!
:Maybe, but there are only so many ways to say that a competitor is down, after all.--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:50, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::Given there are over 350,000 Google results for "Down goes" and only 10,000 for "Down goes Frazier", I don't think Frazier owns this phrase. Even after allowing for the number of false positives of a shorter search string, and other refereneces to Frazier's fight, 35x the results is a lot. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 07:03, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::When are you going to refine a search and come up with MORE results? Your logic is perplexing to say the least. I have seen a lot more obscure things go up on this wiki. --Your Fuzzy God
::::I'm saying that if "Down goes" was actually a reference to Frazier, then a reasonable portion of the results for "Down goes" would also be results for "Down goes Frazier". As it is, less than 4% are. So "Down goes Frazier" cannot be considered the only possible source for the phrase, and once that is considered we have [[TTATOT]]. It's not a question of obscurity, it's a question of "How do we know it's this, and not something else?". {{User:Phlip/sig}} 15:21, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:When Homestar says "Watch your language" to Pom Pom it's a direct reference to The Lion King when Timon says that to Pumbaa!!!11111one OMG FASCISM!! ... seriously, no. [[User:Danny Lilithborne|Danny Lilithborne]] 07:54, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Golbol Easter Egg ==

The section about the Easter Egg says that the logo in the background of the golbol belongs to the New York Yankees.

In fact, it belongs to the New York Mets. (Mookie Wilson played for the Mets) {{unsigned|68.203.142.206|12:39, 22 August 2006 (UTC)}}

:Thanks for point this out, but a hint for next time – if you see a clear mistake in the article, you don't need to tell us about it, just go in and fix it... taking it to the talk page is generally only necessary if you're not sure, or others don't agree. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 12:58, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

::That may all be well and good, but is it more than a coincidence that this toon came out just after the "Yankees finish historic sweep of Red Sox"? It would seem that would be rewarded with a gold bowl.

::: It is a coincidence. It's not a Yankees logo.

:::: Correct. The Mets and Yankees both have "NY" in their logos but they are arranged very distinctly. See the page backgrounds [http://www.mets.com/ here] and [http://www.yankees.com here] to compare the logos (in fact, it almost looks like the Mets logo in the Easter Egg could have been taken directly from the Mets website -- notice the angle!). But on a related note, does anyone think that it's worthy of note as trivia in the article that two days before this toon appeared on the site, Mookie Wilson (who has barely ever been in the news since the Mets won the World Series in 1986) appeared at a big ceremony at the Mets stadium with many of his '86 comrades marking the 20th anniversary of the championship and that Wilson was the one to speak on behalf of all the players present in accepting the honor? [[User:LitigationMattson|LitigationMattson]] 23:22, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== hewwo ==

he doesn't normally mispronounce l's

==Stong Bad vs. Strond Bad==
When I looked at the autograph egg, Strong Bad's inscription is signed "Strond Ba... wait a sec" instead of "Stong" as is mentioned in the transcript. It's possible that this will change randomly, I suppose, although I checked it a couple of times (in different windows) and it remains "Strond". I hesitate to change it, though, because TBC have done random stuff before, so maybe someone else can see what they get. [[User:ModestlyHotGirl|ModestlyHotGirl]] 14:03, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Talk:Strongest Man in the World

LitigationMattson — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 23:22:30 GMT

LitigationMattson: /* Golbol Easter Egg */

== 10 years! ==

Nice toon. I added this to the filmography of mr. bland and señor's charecter pages. I'm glad they re-did the old book. and there is another thing that I saw, when señor gets crushed, it says "sbloncheked" or what ever sb's candy bar was.
[[User:Cessna Man!|Cessna Man!]] 23:43, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
:I really liked this toon. It really captures the series' appeal. Who's doing the transcript for this, by the way? I hope they get done soon. We should put up pictures of Senor, Mr. Bland, etc.'s new forms on their pages. And also, Senor's voice doesn't sound like Matt's; think it could've been done by someone else?-[[User:Brightstar Shiner|Brightstar Shiner]] 00:00, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:I'm almost certain that Mr. Bland was voiced by Mike. Anyone know for sure? --[[User:Bigscarymike|BigScaryMike]] 01:52, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::Plain ol' Matt's voice. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 12:13, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::I added all the pictures, so that's done. {{User:The Joe/sig}} 15:08, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Not on main page? ==

Does anyone else not see this on the Main Pages? Should this be included as a Fun Fact of some kind?
:I see it there. Maybe clear your cache? {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 00:47, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Introduction ==

The intro says that Homestar enters the contest yet again. This seems a little misleading, as the toon is a modernization, not a sequel, as the intro could imply.

:Looks like that's been changed {{User:The Joe/sig}} 15:09, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Everybody Loves The Homestar Runner ==

doesnt he say "Everybody loves THE me" not "loves a'me"? that would make more sense to me. --([[User:Superplough|superplough]] not logged in) [[User:132.181.7.1|132.181.7.1]] 02:01, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:He does say "the me." You can go ahead and change that. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 02:06, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Mega Man Introductions? ==

I think that Mr. Bland, Señor, and The Robot's introductions may be references to games from the [[Wikipedia:Mega_Man_(series)|Mega Man series]], in which the bosses are introduced with a snazzy background, a pose, and a sound effect before you begin their levels. Or, is this a more general reference? {{User:Trey56/sig}} 02:07, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

:The opening to The New Leave it to Beaver Show introduced the cast in a similar fashion if I remember correctly. Can't find any substantiating images though. Does it have to be a reference? Maybe it's just a visually interesting way to introduce characters. [[User:PolarBoy|PolarBoy]] 02:37, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Slo-Mo Action ==

Currently, the article page says that Homestar's slo-mo kicking of The Cheat is a reference to Super Mario Strikers. I think that it's actually a reference to The Matrix.

Hmmm... I dont think its necessarily a Matrix reference...its just in slow motion. the camera doesnt rotate around Homestar like the famous "bullet time" effect usually does. To me it just looks like a bicycle kick.
- [[User:Del Taco?|Del Taco?]] 02:49, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:Yeah, you're probably right. But I don't think TBC would make a reference to Super Mario Strikers. {{User:The_Spainish_Inquisition/sig}} 03:24, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

TBC have mentioned in an Interview (can't remember which one) that they are fans of Nintendo games, it is possible that they would reference Super Mario Striker, In SMS if a player passes the ball to a teammate in front of the Goal and the recieving teammate holds down the shoot button, the game will go into slow motion and the reciving teammate will do one of many different styles of Kicks,The most popular one Being the exact same move that Homestar did on Teh C. Also regarding the fact that it may be actually a reference to The Matrix, I recall no such move being used in any of the Matrix movies, [[User:Dctcool|Dctcool]]

It actually reminded me most of Shaolin Soccer... but that could be because I just watched it today.
:It reminds me of a lot of martial arts movies, but not one in particular that springs to mind.--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:58, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::Does anyone have a video of that specific kick from Super Mario Strikers? {{User:The_Spainish_Inquisition/sig}} 14:51, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

==I still alive?==
I think Senor says "I see the light!" Instead of "I still alive"! I see the light is much funnier. The Chaps would go for I See The Light!-Me
: I hear "I still alive," funny or not. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 02:48, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:I originally thought it was "i see the light", but i think "I still alive" makes more sense with the way he waves his hand up through the grapes. And his bad grammar does fit with hes dialect. -[[User:Del Taco?|Del Taco?]] 02:52, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
: I was just about to add a discussion on this line. I hear, "I ''feel'' alive!" His accent is a little hard to decipher, so I don't see this ending well. Prepare for weeks of arguing...--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 02:54, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::FWIW, the first time I heard it I heard "I steel alive!" and it was hilarious. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 03:03, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::I heard "I steel alive" [[User:Retromaniac|Retromaniac]] 03:19, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
[[Media:Alive.ogg|The first quote in question]]--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 03:27, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::I heard "I see de light!" {{User:The_Spainish_Inquisition/sig}} 03:35, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::It is clearly "I steel alive" {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 03:44, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
After watching it a few timew I thought that it was I see de light [[User:Smallowman|Smallowman]] 04:00, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::I hear "I still alive!", too.--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:56, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::::"I still alive!" —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 12:15, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== All right, you crap-for-brains ==

What is it that the Grape Fairie is saying in his first line. I can't tell what it is, but it doesn't sound anything like "stupid" to me. Thoughts? --{{User:Jay/sig}} 02:55, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:My first guess is "sorry brains", but I'm not sure enough to change the transcript.--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 02:59, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::Perhaps "slowest brains"? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 03:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

:: ive just listeend to it a bunch of times and im pretty sure its just one syllable. kinda sounds like "All right you slows brains". Im not really hearing the 2 sylables of slowest and not the "ee" sound of sorry. But yea definatly not "stupid brains" -[[User:Del Taco?|Del Taco?]] 03:13, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
[[Media:Listenup.ogg|The second quote in question]]--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 03:29, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::sounds like: " i'm ready, so you'se brains listen up smart " possibly calling them brains in conjunction with listen up smart. {{User:Csours/sig}} 03:47, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Do you have headphones or speakers, Csours? I'm curious. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 12:19, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::Ohhh yeah, "slows brains" kind of works! I was looking for something that rhymes/sounds like "stoes brains," and I think that's it. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 12:19, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::speakers. i know headphones are better, i just havent got any yet. also i put it on loop on my sound editor and listened to it like 100 times.{{User:Csours/sig}} 14:31, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Unplugged? ==

The first fun fact credits the show MTV Unplugged with the creation of the term unplugged. I think (and am researching) that the term predates the show. [[User:Mila|Mila]] 03:26, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

:"Unplugged" dates back to the beginnings of elictricity. But as a description of music played without extra amplification, MTV gets the credit. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 04:09, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

The unplugged fact is credited both to MTV and Eric Clapton in different sections, which is kind of contradicting itself. One or the other should be taken out.
===Teh Proof===
Quotes from the Oxford English dictionary:
*New York Times, 21 April 1957
*:The return of the unplugged guitar gets another boost from George Van Eps, who was supplying rhythmic chords to jazz groups long before voltage came into fashion.
*Washington Post, 26 December 1986
*:Nils Lofgren unplugged is still Nils Lofgren the musician... Lofgren will give a rare acoustic concert at the Bayou tomorrow.
*Toronto Star, 6 October 1989
*:The simple, six-string folk rhythms of several songs here..owe some of their sincere appeal to the unplugged colors of Tracy Chapman's music.
MTV Unplugged first aired on 26 November, 1989. Lexicography saves the day again! --[[User:60.228.144.21|60.228.144.21]] 08:31, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

:Nice catch... I've reworded the fact to say that MTV popularised it, but didn't coin it. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 08:41, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Reference ==

I recently removed these RWRs from the page:

*Homestar's slow-motion move (a Pele kick) seems similar to a "Slo-mo Cross Shot" from [[Wikipedia:Super_Mario_Strikers|Super Mario Strikers]].
**It could also be a reference to the "Bullet Time" sequences in [[Wikipedia:The_Matrix|The Matrix]].
***Another possibility is they modeled it after the Sphere Shot in [[Wikipedia:Final Fantasy X|Final Fantasy X]].

This seems to me to be the very definition of TTATOT. I'd be glad to entertain discussion to help settle what Homestar's move ''actually'' refers to; however, I kind of suspect it's actually just a generic fighting move and not a reference at all. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 03:37, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

:Heh, I agree. But now that you mention the Sphere Shot...--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 04:12, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

I propose that it is a reference to Shaolin Soccer. Though, actually, like many of the most reasonable people here, I doubt it's a direct reference to -anything-. Still, that kind of manuever is done at least once, if not a few times in Shaolin Soccer, in slo-mo and everything.

It's possible that it references all 3 franchises (except the Matrix as there is no such move in any Matrix movies)

::I don't think it references a single thing. Homestar kicks the cheat around like a soccer ball with generic moves and does an out of the ordinary extra kick in slow motion to emphasize it. It might be inspired by such things but not directly referencing Shaolin Soccer, Matrix or Super Mario Strikers. The ONLY WAY it could be a reference, directly, to any of those is if the moves Homestar is doing are pretty much exactly done like those in the particular move in the game or movie. --{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 18:24, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

==hacky sack vs footbag==

in the transcript, it says that homestar kicks the cheat around like a hacky sack. this is a brand name. footbag is the generic term.{{User:Csours/sig}} 03:39, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
: I never play with hackysacks or footbags, but I don't know anyone who would know what you mean if you say footbag [[User:Inverse Tiger|Inverse Tiger]] 04:25, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::I've never heard the word "footbag", either. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 05:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Ditto--I've heard them called hacky sacks for 20 years (or thereabouts), but I've never heard footbags. It may be a brand name, but it's pretty much been adopted as a generic term (like with Levis or Kleenex).--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:53, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::I've never heard of a footbag ''or'' a hacky sack. Does that mean I'm stupid? [[User:Ppk01|Ppk01]] 12:29, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::I've never heard Levis used as a generic term... --[[User:ComputerBox|ComputerBox]] 15:27, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Actually, the way he kicks it also looks like the way you can bounce a ball in soccer.--{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 18:26, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Page Title ==

Is "The Homestar Runner Enters the Longest Page Title on the Website Contest!" actually the longest page title on the website? [[User:!!|!!]]

: [[User talk:William | Shall we find out?]] [[User:William|William]] 04:04, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::I did my own search by looking up "Page title" on the wiki's search bar and looking through each selection. Turns out this toon doesn't win. See the fun facts for the true winner. - {{User:Joshua/sig}} 05:30, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Wretched Simmons Outfit ==

Homestar's spandex workout uniform is from the Lady Fan E-mail.
:Yep, that's already mentioned there. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]

== Enough with the golbol! ==

Alright already! I see that it's captioned as GOLBOL in the Easter egg. I can accept that many, if not all, characters pronounce it "golbol". But, for the love of all that is humane, can we PLEASE use "gold bowl" or "trophy" when we are describing it? Please, oh please. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 04:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:Since you asked so nicely... --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
:: Actually, in the 'toon version, it's never once referred to as a "trophy" or "gold bowl", and only once as just simply a "bowl". Why not call it "Golbol"? --{{User:Jay/sig}} 05:26, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Because it sounds ridiculous...? --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::::[[Suudsu]]. [[The Denzel]]. [[Lord Quackingstick]]. We don't describe these every time they appear after being named, but they have ridiculous names as well. This is a site about silly cartoon animal people. Keep your sense of humor about you. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 06:03, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::From another edit just made on another page, I'm reminded of another such case: [[The Geddup Noise]]. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 06:08, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::I wonder, though, if in the Fun Facts the word golbol would be better placed in quotes, since it's not a real word?--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 07:08, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::Jay, those are established more solidly than this. The spelling "golbol" is solely from an egg which in all likelihood is just a joke in itself on the characters' pronunciation. As Dorian put in an edit summary, it makes it look like we're a bunch of turkeys. This is a knowledge base, not a poultry farm. We should use an odd spelling when it's needed, but not when it doesn't add to meaning. Suudzu - how else would you spell it? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 09:35, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::We had a bit of conversation over this, and it was determined that I would transcribe it as "Golbol". Sorry if there's been any confusion. — {{User:Lapper/sig}} 12:34, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::"More solidly?" Lord Quackingstick's name is mentioned all of once. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 15:39, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::::Sure. Strong Bad unquestionably says "Quackingstick". It's a duck on a stick, the name makes perfect sense. Here, we are transcribing a word based on Homestar's and The Grape Faerie's accents, which we never do. The only supporting evidence is the egg, which could easily be itself making a joke about how those two pronounced it. I mean, concensus will win, and I can see the argument for, but I'm of the mind we ought not do this in the transcript. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 21:22, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::::Doesn't spelling it out in the Easter egg as they did carry a lot of weight, just as if Strong Bad had typed it or if it were featured as a Quote of the Week? I mean, it sure ''sounds'' like they're saying "golbol" and not "gold bowl" to me, so there's not the problem of the two not matching. Oh, to add to Jay's list of examples: "zader matermorts". — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 22:41, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::::::Yeah, but that's only because of the Easter egg. Do you really think you would transcribe it as "golbol" if you hadn't seen it? Also, you guys are making a big deal out of it. Just because it's listed as "GOLBOL" doesn't mean that it wouldn't be "''the'' golbol" otherwise. And just typing out "golbol" makes me queasy. ¤ {{User:The Mu/sig}} 22:51, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::::::No, if it weren't for the Easter egg, then there's no way I would transcribe it "golbol"... but there ''is'' the Easter egg. Are we just supposed to ignore it? In fact, I can't see any reason for the Easter egg's existence other than to give the correct spelling of the trophy's name. I therefore have no problem with calling it "the golbol" in the transcript, and in fact we may should call it "the Golbol" (a proper noun). — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:05, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Strongest Man in the World Poster ==

If I am not mistaken, it features the "Big Beefy Arm" from Trogdor fame.
:I think it's just a generic beefy arm. Y'know, coz it's a strength contest and all. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
:::I agree, just a generic arm.--{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 18:28, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:: I thought it looked like the same beefy arms from [[Dragon]], too. --[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:44, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== LotR reference? ==

It's a stretch, but I thought I'd bring it up here. When Pom Pom has the trophy at the end, Homestar says he should give it to him for his birthday, which of course was today. This is like when Gollum's friend got the Ring and Gollum demanded it for his birthday, which was that day. Of course Homestar didn't kill Pom Pom... but could they be related? I don't feel sure enough about it to add it without some agreement [[User:Inverse Tiger|Inverse Tiger]] 04:25, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No. No offense, but is there a single line in all of H*R which isn't a reference, by this standard? Anonymous has spoken. [[User:89.1.17.101|89.1.17.101]] 04:52, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::OK, anonymous, there's no need to be insistent. But I do think you're right that this reference is a stretch. {{User:Heimstern Läufer/sig}} 05:04, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:D-d-definitely, definitely a stretch [[User:Jetpac|Jetpac]] 05:12, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Extra Sauce? ==

I think that Homestar acutally says "Extra Sauce" instead of exercise.
:I heard Extracise
:: Me too, though I thought of it as "Extrasize". --[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:47, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Correction--the first incident, it sounds like "extra size", the second it sounds like he says "pour on that extra sauce".--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 07:06, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::I'll second that.--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 07:47, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::::sounds like extro-sauze to me, but it could easily be both. {{User:The Joe/sig}} 15:24, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Pure Pwnage Reference ==

Okay, this is DEFINITELY a reference, stop deleting it. I will make my case clear here.

Pure Pwnage is a somewhat popular internet-show. They did an episode where the main character sat at a desk with a Compy 386 and answered emails EXACTLY like Strong Bad does. Naturally, someone pointed this out to TBC and they threw him a bone by making this reference:
When Strong Bad writes to Homestar telling him he can achieve anything and then stops and says "you're a butt", this is a reference to the episode of Pure Pwnage (which references Strong Bad Emails) where Jeremy answers emails like Strong Bad and he tells someone who professes to 'like boys more than girls' that he should stay true to who he is and then erases it and writes "u r a fag".
Clearly these are the exact same principle. Starting out telling someone that they can 'acheve anything' and 'stay true to who you are' and then saying to them "you're a butt" or "u r a fag" is a TOTAL DIRECT reference. They cant use the word "fag" on Homestar Runner, and Strong Bad wouldnt write "u r" They abbreviated the best they could.
:Except that kind of joke is as old as the hills.--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:48, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::Character ''x'' does something absurdly out of character, realises what s/he's doing, stops, and reverts back to in character. This isn't exactly a new formula. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 07:03, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:Yeah, sorry, agree with the people above me. Not a reference. It's just Strong Bad signing 50 autographs in a row without looking up, then realizing he's signing one for Homestar.--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 07:50, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:Agreed. This is not worth getting on a soapbox over. It's an old joke. [[User:Danny Lilithborne|Danny Lilithborne]] 07:53, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Down Goes Bland ==

Someone is out to take out all of my references that are blazingly clear here, so i'm gonna write another discussion one.
"Down goes Bland" is a reference to Howard Cosell's ringside calling of the Foreman Vs Frazier fight where when George Foreman won, Howard Cosell repeatedly shouted "Down goes Frazier!"
C'mon, its a competition, one of them goes down and they yell "Down Goes <Last Name>"
What more do you want Phlip?!
:Maybe, but there are only so many ways to say that a competitor is down, after all.--[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 06:50, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
::Given there are over 350,000 Google results for "Down goes" and only 10,000 for "Down goes Frazier", I don't think Frazier owns this phrase. Even after allowing for the number of false positives of a shorter search string, and other refereneces to Frazier's fight, 35x the results is a lot. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 07:03, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:::When are you going to refine a search and come up with MORE results? Your logic is perplexing to say the least. I have seen a lot more obscure things go up on this wiki. --Your Fuzzy God
::::I'm saying that if "Down goes" was actually a reference to Frazier, then a reasonable portion of the results for "Down goes" would also be results for "Down goes Frazier". As it is, less than 4% are. So "Down goes Frazier" cannot be considered the only possible source for the phrase, and once that is considered we have [[TTATOT]]. It's not a question of obscurity, it's a question of "How do we know it's this, and not something else?". {{User:Phlip/sig}} 15:21, 22 August 2006 (UTC)
:When Homestar says "Watch your language" to Pom Pom it's a direct reference to The Lion King when Timon says that to Pumbaa!!!11111one OMG FASCISM!! ... seriously, no. [[User:Danny Lilithborne|Danny Lilithborne]] 07:54, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== Golbol Easter Egg ==

The section about the Easter Egg says that the logo in the background of the golbol belongs to the New York Yankees.

In fact, it belongs to the New York Mets. (Mookie Wilson played for the Mets) {{unsigned|68.203.142.206|12:39, 22 August 2006 (UTC)}}

:Thanks for point this out, but a hint for next time – if you see a clear mistake in the article, you don't need to tell us about it, just go in and fix it... taking it to the talk page is generally only necessary if you're not sure, or others don't agree. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 12:58, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

::That may all be well and good, but is it more than a coincidence that this toon came out just after the "Yankees finish historic sweep of Red Sox"? It would seem that would be rewarded with a gold bowl.

::: It is a coincidence. It's not a Yankees logo.

:::: Correct. See the page backgrounds [http://www.mets.com/ here] and [http://www.yankees.com here] to compare the logos. [[User:LitigationMattson|LitigationMattson]] 23:22, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

== hewwo ==

he doesn't normally mispronounce l's

==Stong Bad vs. Strond Bad==
When I looked at the autograph egg, Strong Bad's inscription is signed "Strond Ba... wait a sec" instead of "Stong" as is mentioned in the transcript. It's possible that this will change randomly, I suppose, although I checked it a couple of times (in different windows) and it remains "Strond". I hesitate to change it, though, because TBC have done random stuff before, so maybe someone else can see what they get. [[User:ModestlyHotGirl|ModestlyHotGirl]] 14:03, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

Some Stupid Turkey

LitigationMattson — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:15:34 GMT

LitigationMattson: /* Real-World References */ fix link

{{toonnav|Holiday Toon|turkey|The House That Gave Sucky Treats|The Best Decemberween Ever}}
[[Image:stupidturkey.PNG|thumb|"Go and suck your thumb!"]]

An often-overlooked toon, Strong Bad simply dresses up like a turkey and sings a song.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}

'''Places:''' [[The Field]]

'''Date:''' November 27, 2001

'''Page Title:''' Strap on that feed bag!!

'''Running Time:''' 0:39
__FORCETOC__
== Transcript ==
''{Open to Strong Bad standing in a field in autumn, wearing a turkey constume.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Dun dun dadun dun DUN! Oh, I'm some stupid turkey, as stupid as they come! Cut off my head,

''{An axe, swung from above, cuts the "turkey" head from Strong Bad's costume.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' stuff me with bread,

''{With a "pop!", a loaf of bread appears in the "turkey" head's beak.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' go and suck your thumb!

''{The Cheat, Homestar Runner, Strong Mad, Bubs, and Coach Z appear from behind Strong Bad.}''

'''ALL:''' ''{singing}'' Go... and... suck... your...

'''ALL (except Coach Z and The Cheat):''' ''{singing}'' thuuuuuuumb! 
'''COACH Z:''' ''{singing, simultaneously}'' theeerrrrrrmb!
 
'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{singing, simultaneously}'' meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Now let us go and partake of our wonderous feast!

''{Screen blanks with buttons reading "Back" and "Play Again" appearing}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{offscreen}'' Hey, wait a minute, where's The King of Town?

''{Cut to the King of Town, who is much fatter than usual, and lying down. He turns green for a split second, then his face goes back to normal.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' Doo hoo ooh..oooh....''{hiccups}'' More gravy, please!

''{The King of Town slowly turns greener.}

== Fun Facts ==

=== Trivia ===
* Though Strong Bad still has a bit of his Mexican accent, he is now starting to sound a bit more like he does today.
* The final "Go and suck your thumb" is in stereo. For example, notice how Homestar is only on the left channel.

=== Remarks ===
* When the Back and Play Again buttons come up for the first time, they aren't clickable.
* At the end, the KoT's face becomes greener and greener the longer you watch, but it eventually stops.
* Although Strong Bad asks where the King of Town is, no one notices that four other characters are also missing (The Poopsmith, Strong Sad, Pom Pom, and Marzipan).
* For some reason, when everyone is singing "Go and suck your thumb", Homestar's voice is separate from all the others. If you pause the Flash file when the line is sung, Homestar's voice continues singing anyway.
* This toon was originally a belated Thanksgiving toon, having been released significantly after Thanksgiving of 2001.

=== Real-World References ===
* Strong Bad sings the song in the style of a hoedown, with everyone joining him in a repeat of the last line of the stanza. This is a neat take-off on one of the games played on the show ''[[Wikipedia:List of games from Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'', in which the four performers belt out a hoedown-style song about any given subject. There are four stanzas per song and each performer sings one stanza, with the last line of the fourth stanza being repeated by all performers.
* The position of Strong Bad's turkey costume with its enormous plumage resembles the famous [[Wikipedia:National Broadcasting Company logos#NBC Peacock logos|NBC peacock]], especially prior to the current version of the six-feather peacock. The original peacock had eleven feathers, which is just one short of Strong Bad's costume, which features twelve feathers.
* The extra turkey head on top of Strong Bad's head looks very similar to the Wiseman's Bird-Hat in the film [[Wikipedia:Labyrinth_(film)|Labyrinth]].

== External Links ==
*[[HR:turkey.html|watch "Some Stupid Turkey"]]
*[[HR:turkey.swf|view the Flash file for "Some Stupid Turkey"]]

[[Category:Holiday Toons]]

Some Stupid Turkey

LitigationMattson — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 21:15:02 GMT

LitigationMattson: /* Real-World References */ bird-hat

{{toonnav|Holiday Toon|turkey|The House That Gave Sucky Treats|The Best Decemberween Ever}}
[[Image:stupidturkey.PNG|thumb|"Go and suck your thumb!"]]

An often-overlooked toon, Strong Bad simply dresses up like a turkey and sings a song.

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}

'''Places:''' [[The Field]]

'''Date:''' November 27, 2001

'''Page Title:''' Strap on that feed bag!!

'''Running Time:''' 0:39
__FORCETOC__
== Transcript ==
''{Open to Strong Bad standing in a field in autumn, wearing a turkey constume.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' Dun dun dadun dun DUN! Oh, I'm some stupid turkey, as stupid as they come! Cut off my head,

''{An axe, swung from above, cuts the "turkey" head from Strong Bad's costume.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' stuff me with bread,

''{With a "pop!", a loaf of bread appears in the "turkey" head's beak.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{singing}'' go and suck your thumb!

''{The Cheat, Homestar Runner, Strong Mad, Bubs, and Coach Z appear from behind Strong Bad.}''

'''ALL:''' ''{singing}'' Go... and... suck... your...

'''ALL (except Coach Z and The Cheat):''' ''{singing}'' thuuuuuuumb! 
'''COACH Z:''' ''{singing, simultaneously}'' theeerrrrrrmb!
 
'''THE CHEAT:''' ''{singing, simultaneously}'' meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeh!

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Now let us go and partake of our wonderous feast!

''{Screen blanks with buttons reading "Back" and "Play Again" appearing}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{offscreen}'' Hey, wait a minute, where's The King of Town?

''{Cut to the King of Town, who is much fatter than usual, and lying down. He turns green for a split second, then his face goes back to normal.}''

'''THE KING OF TOWN:''' Doo hoo ooh..oooh....''{hiccups}'' More gravy, please!

''{The King of Town slowly turns greener.}

== Fun Facts ==

=== Trivia ===
* Though Strong Bad still has a bit of his Mexican accent, he is now starting to sound a bit more like he does today.
* The final "Go and suck your thumb" is in stereo. For example, notice how Homestar is only on the left channel.

=== Remarks ===
* When the Back and Play Again buttons come up for the first time, they aren't clickable.
* At the end, the KoT's face becomes greener and greener the longer you watch, but it eventually stops.
* Although Strong Bad asks where the King of Town is, no one notices that four other characters are also missing (The Poopsmith, Strong Sad, Pom Pom, and Marzipan).
* For some reason, when everyone is singing "Go and suck your thumb", Homestar's voice is separate from all the others. If you pause the Flash file when the line is sung, Homestar's voice continues singing anyway.
* This toon was originally a belated Thanksgiving toon, having been released significantly after Thanksgiving of 2001.

=== Real-World References ===
* Strong Bad sings the song in the style of a hoedown, with everyone joining him in a repeat of the last line of the stanza. This is a neat take-off on one of the games played on the show ''[[Wikipedia:List of games from Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]'', in which the four performers belt out a hoedown-style song about any given subject. There are four stanzas per song and each performer sings one stanza, with the last line of the fourth stanza being repeated by all performers.
* The position of Strong Bad's turkey costume with its enormous plumage resembles the famous [[Wikipedia:National Broadcasting Company logos#NBC Peacock logos|NBC peacock]], especially prior to the current version of the six-feather peacock. The original peacock had eleven feathers, which is just one short of Strong Bad's costume, which features twelve feathers.
* The extra turkey head on top of Strong Bad's head looks very similar to the Wiseman's Bird-Hat in the film [[Wikipedia:Labyrinth|Labyrinth]].

== External Links ==
*[[HR:turkey.html|watch "Some Stupid Turkey"]]
*[[HR:turkey.swf|view the Flash file for "Some Stupid Turkey"]]

[[Category:Holiday Toons]]

User:LitigationMattson

LitigationMattson — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:38:29 GMT

LitigationMattson:

I'm a Homestar Runner fan and a newly minted lawyer in New York City. The system really [[Litigation_Jackson|works]], jerks!

User:LitigationMattson

LitigationMattson — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:37:05 GMT

LitigationMattson:

I'm a Homestar Runner fan and a newly minted lawyer in New York City. The system really works, jerks!

Talk:keep cool

LitigationMattson — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:31:26 GMT

LitigationMattson: /* Homestar mixing up words */

==DS?==

What do you suppose Homestar's marking as "ds" means? I can think of one that's not family friendly, but other options? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 19:23, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
:My guess is on Dumb Star, or something like that. He previously called Homestar that in an email, I think, but I am not sure. {{User:Rogue Leader/sig}} 19:25, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::I'm guessing it's a reference to the Nintendo DS. It has been shown again and again that TBC are Nintendo fans. At least, the DS was what I first thought of when I saw that. My two cents. {{User:Alcnolien/sig}} 20:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
:::It's almost certainly "duckshirt." That's pretty much a synonym for Homestar, and in [[flashback]], SB uses "Duckshirt" as Homestar's name. [[User:LitigationMattson|LitigationMattson]] 20:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::::I concur: Duckshirt is the answer. [[User:Ilko Skevüld's Teh C|Ilko Skevüld's Teh C]] 14:53, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::Yea, I'd have to say duck shirt, it fits better than the other options. [[User:Vash Lupin VI|Vash Lupin VI]] 20:32, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Maybe it's just the "sb" on the Strong Bad cutout mirrored. {{User:The_Spainish_Inquisition/sig}}
::If that's the case then the "s" would be backwards.
:When I first saw it, it seemed like the "ds" was just a (poor) phonetic spelling of "this". He IS saying that as he cycles through the images. Not everything needs to be a reference! :P This simply seems like a bit of overthinking to me. 16:45, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::Yes, not everything needs to be a reference, but all the other labels are names or nicknames. It's not overthinking if things like it are obviously references.[[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 23:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Dosent DS mean Dip Sh**? I remember that from my elemntary school years.--{{User:Finest1/sig}} 12:17, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
:I personally thought Nintendo DS. But duck shirt seems like the best choice. [[User:Foxtrotblues|
Foxtrotblues]] 23:09, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Baseball reference ==

Strongsad's Easteregg mentioning Baseball could be a reference to the MLB Trade Deadline (which ends in 20 minutes)
:Doubtful - TGS11 had a baseball ref too. I think TBC just like baseball. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 19:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

== Sticklyman's Return! ==
No running, no diving, and no swimming; All represented by the pudding-shoveler himself! --[[User:207.69.139.8|207.69.139.8]] 19:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Ah, but are you sure it's Sticlyman? Does he have a shovel? Is he into light fighting? Or maybe he's just the typical guy-on-a-sign stick man. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 20:14, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
:I hate you. My hopes and dreams rise up and you cruelly shoot them down with your harsh words. I will have my revenge, jerk! --[[User:207.69.139.8|207.69.139.8]] 20:22, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::That was kind'a rude, Qermac, but I suspect a block-in-progress, Mr. IP {{User:Stongbah/sig}} 21:01, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
:::There was nothing rude about what Qermaq said. He was just making the facts obvious.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 21:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::::In a somewhat funny way too. I don't think it's sticklyman. Although I'd like to see him return for another challeeeeenge one day!--{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 06:31, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

:::::Don't block the IP. It's real hard to express sarcasm on the 'net; it might have been a sarcastic remark. On that note, I think Stinkoman killed Sticklyman. --[[User:Foxtrotblues|
- Foxtrotblues]] 23:15, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== no clicky on the lappy ==

when you click the lappy's screen, the pressure waves don't show up.

:Sure they do. I just did it. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 20:14, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

::They don't show up after Strong Bad falls through the roof. --[[User:Ragey|Ragey]] 22:41, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

== Up, A, and Start ==

Does this reference any particular video game? If it were just Up+A, I'd be sure it was a reference to Metroid or both Legend of Zelda games on the NES (using that code on a second controller would save your progress and restart) but I can't think of any games that used Up+A and Start. -- [[User:Frickinsellout|Frickinsellout]] 20:29, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
:You are almost certainly right. In fact, the Up+A on the second controller trick only works when you have paused (pressed start) on the first controller. I'm going to add it to the real-world references section. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 20:58, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::I don't think it refers to any video game, he's just making up a cheat code. [[User:Swimma Dan|Swimma Dan]] 22:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::I agree with Swimma Dan. The Metroid and Zelda references don't make sense because you have to press Start before hand. That's not Up, A, Start, that's Start, A, Up. And if we're going to accept Kirby's Dream Land, where it's Up, A, Select, then are we going to accept codes that go Up, B, Start, or Down, A, Start, or A, Up, Start? Unless someone can find a game code that goes exactly "Up, A, Start", I think this should be changed to a more general reference about video game codes. [[User:70.224.249.166|70.224.249.166]] 00:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Agreed, I figured it was just a generic cheat code thing, not a reference to a specific game. The Zelda reference might make sense, but I think the Kirby one is really stretching it (it's not even the same code!). As for the Metroid thing, I'm probably going to make myself sound really stupid here, but didn't Metroid use ''passwords'', not save files? At least the US version did. {{User:Saturn/sig}} 01:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Metroid did use passwords, Mr. Saturn. However, if you paused and hit Up+A on Controller 2, you would get brought to the password screen, and you can restart the game from there. I've seen this trick in the various tool-assisted speedruns of the game. -- [[User:Frickinsellout|Frickinsellout]] 04:33, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::I'd have to agree with the Generic Game Code people. We could make a poll though {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 12:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::Another point in favor of a reference to the Zelda games and Metroid is that it fits the context. In the games, you would want to save your progress using this trick before you went in to a dungeon or some place where you might die. In the toon, Strong Bad urges swimmers who have just eaten to do this before they reenter the pool, presumably so that if they died they could start again from the point right before entering the pool. If I'm not mistaken, that's part of the joke SB's making. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 19:38, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::::"If they died they could start again"? I don't see that at all. To me, it sounds like he's just adding something ridiculous onto a list of other ridiculous things. I agree that if TBC were referencing those games, they would have said "Start, A, Up." I think it's just general. [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 23:18, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::::Well, I think there's enough of a consensus here to remove the fact in question. Oh well :) {{User:Trey56/sig}} 23:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

== Long Pants? ==

Is it me, or is Homestar wearing his 'long pants' in the 'ool? (~InvaderJem)
:According the Strongbad, he doesn't have [[long pants]]. {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 12:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::True, but that's why I put quote-marks. Homestar insists that he wears long pants, though...
:::What are you getting at? {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 20:48, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Since his "long pants" are really just his bare skin, what else would he be wearing in the pool? It's not like he can take ''that'' off. --[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 21:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::I guess that's true.

== Pooling ==

How about the fact that the "pool" had been previously mentioned here [http://www.homestarrunner.com/hs6.html]

:I think that might pass off as a fun fact. Nice find, there! (~InvaderJem)
::See [[Swimming Pool]].{{User:Loafing/sig}} 21:30, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

It seems more likely to be the pool from [[A Jumping Jack Contest]].
:Was there not also a pool mentioned in [[other days]], when Strong Bad had swim practice? Apparently he's finished them as well as lifeguard training since then. [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 23:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::[[other days]] doesn't directly mention a pool, but where else would Strong Bad and Strong Sad have swim practice?{{User:The_Spainish_Inquisition/sig}}
:::They had a pool back in [[A Jumping Jack Contest]] and [[Theme Song Video]]. [[User:75.22.195.241|75.22.195.241]] 02:45, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::The Color Pallette in the backdrop of the 'ool is similar to the older cartoons, too. [[User:Foxtrotblues|
- Foxtrotblues]] 23:18, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

:::::Color palette? Huh? Anyway, [[Swimming Pool]] mentions all the above. That's the place for pool sightings. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 23:56, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Mr. Chek(h)ov ==

I'm pretty sure this is a double reference to both the writer and the Star Trek character. Yeah, they're spelled differently, but who ever calls Anton Chekhov "Mr. Chekhov"? However, Kirk did call his Chekov "Mr." all the time...
:It's not going to be TTATOT. If they were referencing Star Trek, they'd have spelled it Chekov. They didn't, so I doubt it's a ST reference at all, especially as Chekhov is even more famous. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 02:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::Not only that, but Anoton Chekhov is someone Strong Sad would be reading. It's Strong Sad. I mean, come on.{{User:Bassbone/sig}} 07:38, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Yes. Obviously, Strong Sad would read Chekhov. So it's a reference to the author. But nobody calls Anton Chekhov "Mr.". That is obviously (I think) a reference to the Star Trek character. It's a joke. And I think that it's worth putting in the explanation because many people won't know what it's about. {{User:Loafing/sig}} 09:27, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
I removed the Chekov reference based on points above. It's this, that and the other thing if it's a reference to both. And it's spelled like the author, not the navigator, so it's clear which was being referenced. Now, IF "Mr. Chekov" is included, I can live with it, but not without. Otherwise it's like saying that Monkey D is a reference to Sunny D, Tenacious D and Sandra Dee. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 09:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC) (Add: And by "living with it" I am saying I still don't agree, but can let it go. But we're a bit too generous in claiming what's a reference around here. Without an explanation of why "Mr. Chechov" might be referring to a guy with a differently-spelled name, it seems out of place and random, and reduces the knowledge-base-ness of the page.)
:Nice, we were working on it at the same time... I reckon "Mr. Checkov" is simply such an iconic name that "Mr. Chekhov" is an obvious reference for someone who knows Star Trek. And there have been made enough ST references by TBC that I believe they do know ST. {{User:Loafing/sig}} 09:33, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::Yup; sorry Qermaq, but I gotta disagree with you on this one. If it's not a reference, it's a goof, and I'd like to think they know how to spell it. Plus, suppose they were simply thinking of Chekhov, and Chekov never entered their minds; why choose the "Mr." title? It's a strange choice for an anthology or biography. And it would be a stranger coincidence for it to mirror the Star Trek usage accidentally. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 16:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Nah, I don't think this is a goof. Chekhov sounds like the kind of stuff that Strong Sad was reading. He doesn't strike me as the type who reads Star Trek anthologies. Anyway, the way the fact is written now, everybody can make up their own mind. {{User:Loafing/sig}} 20:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

== Progressive progress ==

Is anyone still currently working on the transcript? When I stopped, I took the "inprogress" template off... If whoever's working on it now is going really slowly, that's one thing, but it's kinda rude to leave the template there and just stop. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 21:56, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

== The school aways had an elevator! ==

Is anyone else thinking that this particular line might be a reference to Saved by the Bell? Specifically, that time the school suddenly had an elevator for Zack to deliver Mr. Belding's son in? - [[User:81.157.53.124|81.157.53.124]] 21:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

--I think it is a refrence to that, and many other TV shows where the charecters go to a second floor, basement, pool, etc.

Or, maybe it was like my school, where there was no elevator, and there was no swimming pool, but all the freshman were sold swimming pool passes and elevator passes by the upperclassmen.
::It makes more sense that it was the Saved by the Bell episode, because it's referring to how their cartoon and the TV show suddenly and conveniently had something that was never obviously there before for sake of the plot.--{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 06:24, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

:::However: they '''have''' always had this pool. Since one of the very first animated toons. So the analogy doesn't really apply, does it? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 09:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Yeah, that's true. I'd say maybe TBC forgot, but if you go to the flash file for Theme Song Video and look at how they did the water effect, it looks like the same piece makes up the wavy top of the water in both toons. *shrug* It makes more sense the way I said it. lol. I'm not really sure on this.--{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 18:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Someone, perhaps anonymous above, added a Fun Fact linkin SB's line to a supposedly common prank by upperclassmen of making freshmen believe in nonexistant pools or elevators. I left it alone simply because I can't think of another way to make sense of his line, but at the moment it's a purely anecdotal Fun Fact. If it's going to stay, it would be nice to have some kind of documentation showing that this has happened to more than one person. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 16:49, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::When I saw it, I immediately thought of Saved By The Bell. I've been watching the sbemails for a long time, and I hadn't remembered the pool. Even if they remembered that it was there, the average viewer has never heard of them having a pool, so for SB to say that the pool's always there and they use it all the time seems on par with suddenly announcing Bayside had an elevator, and it's been there all along and people use it all the time.

:I, for one, have heard of this prank as far back as sixteen years ago, and when I first heard it in junior high it was presented as something that had been making the rounds for quite a while. When we got to high school, we always joked about how the gag didn't exactly work there (because that building did in fact have an elevator, albeit not one open to normal student use). — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 17:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::Whether or not the prank exists, I don't think it could be a reference to that. Clearly, Strong Bad isn't pranking anyone--the pool does exist. He isn't selling pool items or fooling people. I never watched Saved by the Bell that much, but I immediately recognized what he was making fun of: places or things suddenly appearing conveniently, which happens as often in the Homestarrunner universe as anywhere. [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 23:33, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

:::At my school, we had a freight elevator I used to move my drums downstairs, and the upperclassmen convinced me there was a snake pit under there. Oh, and on the subject, I thought that was Strong Bad's pool in A Jumping Jack Contest. [[User:Foxtrotblues| - Foxtrotblues]] 23:22, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

::::As I said, I really don't think it's a reference to that whether or not the prank exists. And if it is, it shouldn't be in "Remarks." Are there any objections to removing the fact or at least stuffing it? [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 23:33, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

:::::You should make that fact a splode.[[User:Foxtrotblues|
- Foxtrotblues]] 23:38, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
:Folks: The Pool has been there forever. We have not seen it for 5 years. If the Marshmallow Shop shows up next week, we won't be talking about it appearing out of nowhere. Please see [[Swimming Pool]] for more. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 23:58, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Einstein and Muffled?==
<blockquote>STRONG BAD: So later on anybody wanna get together a game of "Sharks and Minnows"? "Einstein and [muffled]"? "Pregnant and seventeen"?</blockquote>
It seems to me that Strong Bad says "Einstein and Kreskin," likely a refrence to [[wikipedia:kreskin |The Amazing Kreskin]].
I'll refrain from changing the article untile there's a consensus. [[User:216.229.35.170|216.229.35.170]] 23:30, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
:Well, someone just made the edit. Nevermind.[[User:216.229.35.170|216.229.35.170]] 23:33, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
:Second reference to pregnant teenagers, with the Cheat Commando's setting precedence?
::Sorry, I removed that. Noting the first instance of something is ''sometimes'', conceivably, worthwhile. Noting the second and third and so on gets hard. (Plus, I think "seventeen" was a reference to the magazine, though I haven't found a "''Pregnant''" magazine.) —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 16:43, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::I fail to see how you infer a Seventeen magazine reference here. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 23:59, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Inflated The Cheat ==

In regards to the Inside Reference of the Helium email, I'm not certain the cheat is actually inflated, from what I can tell he just seems to be leaning back (or tilting his head up) -{{Tempestryder}}
---He is neither inflated nor lying on his back. I present you with this image.
[[Image:Dacheet.JPG ]]
cessna man!

:I find myself to be skeptical as well. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 05:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::Well, he sure looks inflated to me... Perhaps not quite in the same way, but much rounder in some way. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
:::The cheat is a pudge like thing. He has no feet, it kind of just has skin folds near the bottom of him. In order to swim forward, a normal person would need to kick their feet... apparently the cheat leans his bottom half backward and it causes a bend in him, making him look puffed up. He uses his arms to paddle. This also makes him look kind of like a boat. Regardless, I don't think he is inflated at all.--{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 06:28, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Claiming he's inflated is pure speculation. He could easily be arching his body to propel himself across the water's surface. We really don't know anything about his physiology to assume he can or cannot inflate. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 09:15, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::He looks like a duck. --{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 10:53, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::He's obviously lying on his stomache lifting his head up. {{User:Salty/sig}} 17:01, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:Since most of us seem to be in agreement, should the inside reference to Helium made on the article page be removed? --{{User:Tempestryder}}
::I'd say yes, from the looks of it. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::: I'd say he's a speedboat, or a hydro. Especially because of the sound effects. --{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 04:18, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

:::: now i really really want a the cheat... {{User:Csours/sig}} 05:05, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::He looks poofier, but it could be an artist's error (no offesnse TBC). To see examples of artist errors, watch the first episode of Family Guy. Brian's Head keeps changing shape. It's probably just the difficulty of drawing him in this position. [[User:Foxtrotblues|
- Foxtrotblues]] 23:26, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::(sigh) There's no error, I'm sure. To me, The Cheat is arched back, paddling away, making motorboat sounds. Sometimes it's as simple as it looks. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 00:00, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

== Funny and true ==

It has been hot in Sunnyvale, Ca. I know this because I live there. Unfortunately, I didn't write this one, but I'm glad Strong Bad knows about it. -[[User:Jesselangham|JesseLangham]]
:Yeah, it's been hot in St. Louis, too. It's been constantly in the triple digits. I sent SB an e-mail 'bout it, but I guess it just didn't cut it. Hey, did your power go out? Mine was out for 5 days.{{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 12:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:No, thank god. Of course, we dont have AC, so it wouldnt have made difference, coolness wise. But at least our food didnt cook in the fridge. That blackout must have sucked! -[[User:Jesselangham|JesseLangham]] Aug. 01, 19:51:15 UTC
::Yeah, it did. And I just heard that more people in my area who already had their power out for numerous days are going out again- electric company says it's because of the heat. {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 12:14, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
:::guess what! its hot in texas. everybody here is like: "So What?" its always 100 degrees. and we still go to work, outside, in the sun. uphill. both ways. my sympathy truly goes out to the families who have lost ppl. but seriously guys. {{User:Csours/sig}} 05:17, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Guess what? It's ''always'' hot in Texas. If we lived in Texas, we'd be like "So what?" too. But we don't. And we think it's hot. I'm sorry about the hills. {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 12:14, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Yeah, we know it's hot in Texas. That's why we don't live there. -[[User:Jesselangham|JesseLangham]] Aug. 02, 19:09:45 UTC
:::::It's so hot in Chicago! I'd go [[User:Foxtrotblues|complain]] about it but I don't know what to write... [[User:Foxtrotblues|
- Foxtrotblues]] 23:28, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

===Heat wave===

no doubt about th heat wav. I mean, even in Seattle it's boiling hot! --{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 06:14, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

:In Michigan, my city had a low temperature of 81 degrees F (27 degrees C) this morning. That's a record high minimum temperature. At eleven o'clock last night, it still felt like (heat index) 100 F (38 C). And that's not the worst of it. Ask the people from St. Louis and central Illinois how hot it is. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 12:27, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

::I live in St. Louis and was getting up in the triple digits pretty much all of last week. {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 12:54, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Most of the north SF Bay Area was up in the 110s last weekend (I think the high in my city was 115?). Plus, traffic was terrible as a lot of lights were out. It was awful trying to get around in a car without a/c. Imagine our relief when the heat wave started going down--"Yes! It's in the high 90s!!!!" [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 16:39, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::You got that right. Here in NC, summer is hard enough normally, but this summer is crazy. It's still in the 80s at 9PM.--[[User:Jnelson09|Jnelson09]] 01:33, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
: Actually, I live on the outskirts of Seattle, and the heat wave has (at least for now) passed around here. It dropped to the 60s or low 70s (normal for summer in this area) last weekend. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 19:14, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

This discussion might be better suited to the [http://forum.hrwiki.org/ forum].  I'll leave this here as it displays the meteorogical significance of this toon, but let's move future weather-related discussion to the forum, please. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 00:03, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

== Ool, not Pool ==

After Homestar crashes through Strong Bad's roof. He says "Uh, Strong Bad, I think that total wave ruined your ool." That's "Ool" not "Pool" as the transcript currently reads. This is in reference to the "There is no P in our pool, please keep it that way" Sign referenced in the toon. -[[User:Jesselangham|JesseLangham]]
: You could have just updated the transcript yourself and explained your reasoning in the summary... --{{User:Jay/sig}} 00:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:: ....oh yeah...duh... Thanks!
:::i think he says "that toadal wave ruined your ool... {{User:Csours/sig}} 05:11, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::::It's hard to tell with his lisp. He's not known for pronouncing his Ts. I think "Total" works better anyway. -[[User:Jesselangham|JesseLangham]] Aug. 02, 19:10:58 UTC

== Goofs - The parenthesis ==

Are you guys sure this is a goof? When i first watched it I took it as an apostrophe. Ie: for the marking of a missing letter --ME!

:I'm confused, so I'll elaborate on what we're talking about: it's the ( right before "Notice." There is an apostrophe on the sign for comparison, i.e. in 'ool. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 04:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

:: Ahhh dont mind me then, your right i was wrong. I thought it meant the apostrophe in 'ool :D

== Marzi's green hair ==

Any chance that her green hair is a reference to Diff'rent Strokes? There was an ep where Kimberly washed her hair using acid rain water (which contained lots of chemicals, like the 'ool) and the result was her hair turned green. [[User:AcidHelmNun|Mike]] 06:25, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

:: Was I the only one reminded of that Falling Sand java game? The "plant" sand is green and burns away like Marzi's hair.
:According from a few posts in the forum, it's apparently a somewhat common real-world occurance for blondes to have their hair turn green from pool chemicals.
I don't think it's a reference to any particular TV show. My wife has very thin, natural blond hair, and when she was young and at the pool all the time, her hair would turn very green. It's a reaction to the chlorine in the water. So, it's not a problem limited to dyed blonds as the article currently states.--[[User:Eepiccolo|eepiccolo]] 15:20, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I admit it, I was reaching. ;) [[User:AcidHelmNun|Mike]] 04:39, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

I have naturally blonde hair, and my hair turns a slight greenish tint when I've been in a pool with chlorine. It's a natural occurance. And it washes out. --S

== Nu-uh! Still the third wall! ==

The article currently states that when Strong Bad explains what Strongbadia is and is not, it is one of the most abrupt fourth wall breaks to date. There was a discussion over a similar incident a while back in the [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Talk:mile talk page for "mile"]. Basically, the Strong Bad emails are based on the premise that he is answering his emails for an audience. I honestly don't care that much about the consistency, but these are the kinds of things the wiki loves to bicker over.--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 16:10, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:Yup. That's why I removed it. Even if it were a break, it's certainly not "one of the most abrupt to date", but it's not. What we're seeing qualifies as Strong Bad's imagination--characters aren't really blank spaces--and simply pointing out which location is Strong Badia and which are not... I have no idea how that's supposed to be a break. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 17:17, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::I put it back. When I originally wrote it, I admitted it could be reworded, so if you see a way to fix it up then feel free. The break is ''not'' the part where we see the character cutouts. The break ''is'' the part where Strong Bad freezes the supposedly live "webcast", takes us on a trip around FCUSA, offers us a high five, and then restarts the action. Essentially he is speaking directly ''for TBC'' and addressing the real viewers—you and me—about an apparently common misconception ''outside the continuity'' of the actual email. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 17:44, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Just wondering--where is it ever stated that sbemails are live? [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 23:34, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::You do have a point there — in [[Weclome Back]], Strong Bad was attempting to record a sbemail with a video camera. Nevertheless, that one uncharacteristically had "REC" and a flashing dot in the corner of the screen. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 23:38, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::Other instances include The Cheat's watching [[huttah]] on his computer. But never mind the "live" bit; it's secondary to my point. My point is that TBC, using Strong Bad, brought the email to a complete halt and directly addressed the fans in order to clear up something a lot of fans no doubt get wrong. It's also noteworthy that the little digression was not brought up in the rest of the email. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:47, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::I thought that Strong Bad pointed out what Strong Badia was because he wanted to trick people into thinking that the pool is in Strong Badia. "In the pool that we've always had... that we use all the time..." reinforces this. This is beside the point of whether or not it's a FWB. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 23:56, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
"Third wall"... there's a term I've never heard used before... --{{User:Jay/sig}} 23:50, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:While I accept that you may be joking there: breaking the fourth wall comes from the thought that the front of the stage in a theater represents a wall of whatever room is portrayed on the set, so by breaking that wall it allows the characters to see (and interact with) the audience. (I have also heard it said that the first wall is letting the characters know the script, 2nd is awareness that thy are in a play, 3rd is ability to change anything based on these, and 4th is audience involvement, but i dont accept this) -- The annony formerly known as DumbMuscle (sister's compy due to technical problems)
:: I know what "breaking the fourth wall" means. My comment was directed at the title of this topic ("Still the third wall!") So... Strong Bad's breaking the third wall or something? (As a note, I have never heard of the "first wall is letting the characters know the script" etc. thing before and think that whoever told it to you made it up.) --{{User:Jay/sig}} 19:20, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Sou' Sou'west or South Southwest? ==

In the second Easter Eggs, Strong Sad clearly says "sou' sou'west" instead of "south southwest". Is this a reference to something? I recall similar pronounciations for compass points in the movie "Master and Commander", is it old British Navy jargon? At any rate, I changed the transcript (without explaination, my bad) to reflect this contraction but it was reverted, so I figured I'd start a discussion topic on it.--[[User:Adrock|Adrock]] 20:20, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
: I don't think it's an intentional reference as much as just how it's said in that dialect [[User:Vash Lupin VI|Vash Lupin VI]] 20:32, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::I don't know. On one hand, they could be making some kind of joke, or Matt could have just stuttered {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 20:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
"South-southwest" is one of the [[Wikipedia:Boxing the compass|principal points]] on a compass.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 21:01, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::The reference is to a NorEaster, which is a typical way of describing a storm that comes in from the NorthEast.
:::He definitely said sou'sou'west, and yes, this is how mariners talk. among other ways.{{User:Csours/sig}} 05:35, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Loafing's got a point there. {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 12:16, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::::It's not a reference to anything. Strong Sad is just dropping consonants because he's relaxed/tired. My NOAA weather radio is always telling me winds are south-southwest at 5-10 knots. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 12:28, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Gah! To the anonymous poster who "defined" a Nor'Easter, you made this meteorologist cringe! Nor'easters move TO the northeast, and typically have northeast winds on their northwestern side ... they definitely do not move southwestward (or from the northeast) ... [[User:Spell4yr|Spell4yr]] 00:53, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Was this changed recently, and I missed the memo? From [[Wikipedia:Windsock]]:<blockquote>Note that wind directions are conventionally specified as being the compass point from which the wind originates; so a windsock pointing due north indicates a southerly wind</blockquote>This is the way I've always seen it quoted... a nor'easter blows ''from'' the northeast, a sou'wester blows ''from'' the southwest, and is also a type of [[Wikipedia:Sou'wester|sailor's hat]]. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 01:21, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

== Twin Characters? ==

Does Strong Bad interrupting himself to explain what Strongbadia is count as an appearance of [[Twin Characters]]? {{User:Trey56/sig}} 22:15, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:I don't think so. I think it's a fourth-wall break, discussed above. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:50, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::From Twin Characters: "where a single character appears more than once in the same scene." That's all the description given. Why can't it be both? [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 03:49, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Usually, in the Twin Characters instances, they tend to react to each other, I think. Strong Bad's pauses the action, coming up in a separate place entirely. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::::Agree with DG up above. It's a seperate instance of the same character, the original footage is stopped so that he can make a point and resume. They are in fact the same Strong Bad so it is not an instance of twin characters. Maybe the description should be updated so that it makes more sense. I imagine for the twin characters situation to apply they must react to one another or it must be done in a way so that both characters are in the same scene in "real-time." Or in other words, no pausing the action and then resuming like in this toon.--{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 05:21, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::yea, not twin characters, post-production. {{User:Csours/sig}} 05:38, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== strong mad-nami ==

this might be too vague/general/overanalytical for a fun fact, but strong mad jumping into the pool is similar to the action of a tsunami, ie, you dont see the effect in deep water, only when the wave gets to the shallows does the compression lead to a severe rise in water level. just a thought. {{User:Csours/sig}} 05:21, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

It is too overanalytical. But we can make it better:

The way the tidal wave behaves is similar to the behavior of a [[wikipedia:Tsunami|Tsunami]].
[[User:Foxtrotblues|
- Foxtrotblues]] 23:36, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

==Left-handed?==

When Strong Bad says "Gimme a high five" he raises his left hand. Could this possibly mean he left-handed. Being right-handed, I find it fairly uncomfortable to high five with my left hand. {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 19:05, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
: Although I'm personally of the persuasion that TBC just don't bother keeping track, the consensus here is that Strong Bad is [[Left Handedness|ambidextrous]] (like me!) --{{User:Jay/sig}} 19:10, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

::Being so versatile on the computer, I'd imagine he would be!
[[User:Foxtrotblues|
- Foxtrotblues]] 23:40, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Tomby, Dick and harry ==

Is Strong Bad's spelling of tom B as "Tomby" a reference to the videogame character of the same name? - Grover Junior
: No such character, Stu. Perhaps you meant [[Wikipedia:Tomba|Tomba]]? --{{User:Jay/sig}} 20:02, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::Was about to say, ol' Jaycob but you interrupted my edit, although it is spelled 'Tombi' in some versions, hence my mistake - Grover Junior.

==Total wave or turtle wave?==
What exactly does homestar say at the end of the email? I think he says turtle wave. If he does, then it might a reference to the Kamehameha from Dragonball Z. Thoughts?
[[User:66.65.115.218|66.65.115.218]] 20:54, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Definitely "toadal" or phonetically similar. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 23:54, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
: "Reference to the Kamehameha"?! Uh... how? Am I missing something? Anyway, '''total'''. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 23:56, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Homestar mixing up words ==

Right now there's an "Inside Reference" that says: "Homestar, as he has done many times, mixes up two words ("total" and "tidal")." Isn't Homestar mixing up words far too common, general and obvious an occurrence to qualify as an Inside Reference? It's not a reference to anything; it's just the way Homestar talks. [[User:LitigationMattson|LitigationMattson]] 01:29, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Talk:keep cool

LitigationMattson — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:30:53 GMT

LitigationMattson: /* Homestar mixing up words */

==DS?==

What do you suppose Homestar's marking as "ds" means? I can think of one that's not family friendly, but other options? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 19:23, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
:My guess is on Dumb Star, or something like that. He previously called Homestar that in an email, I think, but I am not sure. {{User:Rogue Leader/sig}} 19:25, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::I'm guessing it's a reference to the Nintendo DS. It has been shown again and again that TBC are Nintendo fans. At least, the DS was what I first thought of when I saw that. My two cents. {{User:Alcnolien/sig}} 20:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
:::It's almost certainly "duckshirt." That's pretty much a synonym for Homestar, and in [[flashback]], SB uses "Duckshirt" as Homestar's name. [[User:LitigationMattson|LitigationMattson]] 20:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::::I concur: Duckshirt is the answer. [[User:Ilko Skevüld's Teh C|Ilko Skevüld's Teh C]] 14:53, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::Yea, I'd have to say duck shirt, it fits better than the other options. [[User:Vash Lupin VI|Vash Lupin VI]] 20:32, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Maybe it's just the "sb" on the Strong Bad cutout mirrored. {{User:The_Spainish_Inquisition/sig}}
::If that's the case then the "s" would be backwards.
:When I first saw it, it seemed like the "ds" was just a (poor) phonetic spelling of "this". He IS saying that as he cycles through the images. Not everything needs to be a reference! :P This simply seems like a bit of overthinking to me. 16:45, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::Yes, not everything needs to be a reference, but all the other labels are names or nicknames. It's not overthinking if things like it are obviously references.[[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 23:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Dosent DS mean Dip Sh**? I remember that from my elemntary school years.--{{User:Finest1/sig}} 12:17, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
:I personally thought Nintendo DS. But duck shirt seems like the best choice. [[User:Foxtrotblues|
Foxtrotblues]] 23:09, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Baseball reference ==

Strongsad's Easteregg mentioning Baseball could be a reference to the MLB Trade Deadline (which ends in 20 minutes)
:Doubtful - TGS11 had a baseball ref too. I think TBC just like baseball. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 19:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

== Sticklyman's Return! ==
No running, no diving, and no swimming; All represented by the pudding-shoveler himself! --[[User:207.69.139.8|207.69.139.8]] 19:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Ah, but are you sure it's Sticlyman? Does he have a shovel? Is he into light fighting? Or maybe he's just the typical guy-on-a-sign stick man. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 20:14, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
:I hate you. My hopes and dreams rise up and you cruelly shoot them down with your harsh words. I will have my revenge, jerk! --[[User:207.69.139.8|207.69.139.8]] 20:22, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::That was kind'a rude, Qermac, but I suspect a block-in-progress, Mr. IP {{User:Stongbah/sig}} 21:01, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
:::There was nothing rude about what Qermaq said. He was just making the facts obvious.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 21:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::::In a somewhat funny way too. I don't think it's sticklyman. Although I'd like to see him return for another challeeeeenge one day!--{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 06:31, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

:::::Don't block the IP. It's real hard to express sarcasm on the 'net; it might have been a sarcastic remark. On that note, I think Stinkoman killed Sticklyman. --[[User:Foxtrotblues|
- Foxtrotblues]] 23:15, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== no clicky on the lappy ==

when you click the lappy's screen, the pressure waves don't show up.

:Sure they do. I just did it. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 20:14, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

::They don't show up after Strong Bad falls through the roof. --[[User:Ragey|Ragey]] 22:41, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

== Up, A, and Start ==

Does this reference any particular video game? If it were just Up+A, I'd be sure it was a reference to Metroid or both Legend of Zelda games on the NES (using that code on a second controller would save your progress and restart) but I can't think of any games that used Up+A and Start. -- [[User:Frickinsellout|Frickinsellout]] 20:29, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
:You are almost certainly right. In fact, the Up+A on the second controller trick only works when you have paused (pressed start) on the first controller. I'm going to add it to the real-world references section. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 20:58, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::I don't think it refers to any video game, he's just making up a cheat code. [[User:Swimma Dan|Swimma Dan]] 22:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::I agree with Swimma Dan. The Metroid and Zelda references don't make sense because you have to press Start before hand. That's not Up, A, Start, that's Start, A, Up. And if we're going to accept Kirby's Dream Land, where it's Up, A, Select, then are we going to accept codes that go Up, B, Start, or Down, A, Start, or A, Up, Start? Unless someone can find a game code that goes exactly "Up, A, Start", I think this should be changed to a more general reference about video game codes. [[User:70.224.249.166|70.224.249.166]] 00:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Agreed, I figured it was just a generic cheat code thing, not a reference to a specific game. The Zelda reference might make sense, but I think the Kirby one is really stretching it (it's not even the same code!). As for the Metroid thing, I'm probably going to make myself sound really stupid here, but didn't Metroid use ''passwords'', not save files? At least the US version did. {{User:Saturn/sig}} 01:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Metroid did use passwords, Mr. Saturn. However, if you paused and hit Up+A on Controller 2, you would get brought to the password screen, and you can restart the game from there. I've seen this trick in the various tool-assisted speedruns of the game. -- [[User:Frickinsellout|Frickinsellout]] 04:33, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::I'd have to agree with the Generic Game Code people. We could make a poll though {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 12:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::Another point in favor of a reference to the Zelda games and Metroid is that it fits the context. In the games, you would want to save your progress using this trick before you went in to a dungeon or some place where you might die. In the toon, Strong Bad urges swimmers who have just eaten to do this before they reenter the pool, presumably so that if they died they could start again from the point right before entering the pool. If I'm not mistaken, that's part of the joke SB's making. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 19:38, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::::"If they died they could start again"? I don't see that at all. To me, it sounds like he's just adding something ridiculous onto a list of other ridiculous things. I agree that if TBC were referencing those games, they would have said "Start, A, Up." I think it's just general. [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 23:18, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::::Well, I think there's enough of a consensus here to remove the fact in question. Oh well :) {{User:Trey56/sig}} 23:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

== Long Pants? ==

Is it me, or is Homestar wearing his 'long pants' in the 'ool? (~InvaderJem)
:According the Strongbad, he doesn't have [[long pants]]. {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 12:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::True, but that's why I put quote-marks. Homestar insists that he wears long pants, though...
:::What are you getting at? {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 20:48, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Since his "long pants" are really just his bare skin, what else would he be wearing in the pool? It's not like he can take ''that'' off. --[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 21:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::I guess that's true.

== Pooling ==

How about the fact that the "pool" had been previously mentioned here [http://www.homestarrunner.com/hs6.html]

:I think that might pass off as a fun fact. Nice find, there! (~InvaderJem)
::See [[Swimming Pool]].{{User:Loafing/sig}} 21:30, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

It seems more likely to be the pool from [[A Jumping Jack Contest]].
:Was there not also a pool mentioned in [[other days]], when Strong Bad had swim practice? Apparently he's finished them as well as lifeguard training since then. [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 23:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::[[other days]] doesn't directly mention a pool, but where else would Strong Bad and Strong Sad have swim practice?{{User:The_Spainish_Inquisition/sig}}
:::They had a pool back in [[A Jumping Jack Contest]] and [[Theme Song Video]]. [[User:75.22.195.241|75.22.195.241]] 02:45, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::The Color Pallette in the backdrop of the 'ool is similar to the older cartoons, too. [[User:Foxtrotblues|
- Foxtrotblues]] 23:18, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

:::::Color palette? Huh? Anyway, [[Swimming Pool]] mentions all the above. That's the place for pool sightings. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 23:56, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Mr. Chek(h)ov ==

I'm pretty sure this is a double reference to both the writer and the Star Trek character. Yeah, they're spelled differently, but who ever calls Anton Chekhov "Mr. Chekhov"? However, Kirk did call his Chekov "Mr." all the time...
:It's not going to be TTATOT. If they were referencing Star Trek, they'd have spelled it Chekov. They didn't, so I doubt it's a ST reference at all, especially as Chekhov is even more famous. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 02:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::Not only that, but Anoton Chekhov is someone Strong Sad would be reading. It's Strong Sad. I mean, come on.{{User:Bassbone/sig}} 07:38, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Yes. Obviously, Strong Sad would read Chekhov. So it's a reference to the author. But nobody calls Anton Chekhov "Mr.". That is obviously (I think) a reference to the Star Trek character. It's a joke. And I think that it's worth putting in the explanation because many people won't know what it's about. {{User:Loafing/sig}} 09:27, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
I removed the Chekov reference based on points above. It's this, that and the other thing if it's a reference to both. And it's spelled like the author, not the navigator, so it's clear which was being referenced. Now, IF "Mr. Chekov" is included, I can live with it, but not without. Otherwise it's like saying that Monkey D is a reference to Sunny D, Tenacious D and Sandra Dee. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 09:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC) (Add: And by "living with it" I am saying I still don't agree, but can let it go. But we're a bit too generous in claiming what's a reference around here. Without an explanation of why "Mr. Chechov" might be referring to a guy with a differently-spelled name, it seems out of place and random, and reduces the knowledge-base-ness of the page.)
:Nice, we were working on it at the same time... I reckon "Mr. Checkov" is simply such an iconic name that "Mr. Chekhov" is an obvious reference for someone who knows Star Trek. And there have been made enough ST references by TBC that I believe they do know ST. {{User:Loafing/sig}} 09:33, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::Yup; sorry Qermaq, but I gotta disagree with you on this one. If it's not a reference, it's a goof, and I'd like to think they know how to spell it. Plus, suppose they were simply thinking of Chekhov, and Chekov never entered their minds; why choose the "Mr." title? It's a strange choice for an anthology or biography. And it would be a stranger coincidence for it to mirror the Star Trek usage accidentally. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 16:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Nah, I don't think this is a goof. Chekhov sounds like the kind of stuff that Strong Sad was reading. He doesn't strike me as the type who reads Star Trek anthologies. Anyway, the way the fact is written now, everybody can make up their own mind. {{User:Loafing/sig}} 20:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

== Progressive progress ==

Is anyone still currently working on the transcript? When I stopped, I took the "inprogress" template off... If whoever's working on it now is going really slowly, that's one thing, but it's kinda rude to leave the template there and just stop. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 21:56, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

== The school aways had an elevator! ==

Is anyone else thinking that this particular line might be a reference to Saved by the Bell? Specifically, that time the school suddenly had an elevator for Zack to deliver Mr. Belding's son in? - [[User:81.157.53.124|81.157.53.124]] 21:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

--I think it is a refrence to that, and many other TV shows where the charecters go to a second floor, basement, pool, etc.

Or, maybe it was like my school, where there was no elevator, and there was no swimming pool, but all the freshman were sold swimming pool passes and elevator passes by the upperclassmen.
::It makes more sense that it was the Saved by the Bell episode, because it's referring to how their cartoon and the TV show suddenly and conveniently had something that was never obviously there before for sake of the plot.--{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 06:24, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

:::However: they '''have''' always had this pool. Since one of the very first animated toons. So the analogy doesn't really apply, does it? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 09:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Yeah, that's true. I'd say maybe TBC forgot, but if you go to the flash file for Theme Song Video and look at how they did the water effect, it looks like the same piece makes up the wavy top of the water in both toons. *shrug* It makes more sense the way I said it. lol. I'm not really sure on this.--{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 18:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Someone, perhaps anonymous above, added a Fun Fact linkin SB's line to a supposedly common prank by upperclassmen of making freshmen believe in nonexistant pools or elevators. I left it alone simply because I can't think of another way to make sense of his line, but at the moment it's a purely anecdotal Fun Fact. If it's going to stay, it would be nice to have some kind of documentation showing that this has happened to more than one person. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 16:49, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::When I saw it, I immediately thought of Saved By The Bell. I've been watching the sbemails for a long time, and I hadn't remembered the pool. Even if they remembered that it was there, the average viewer has never heard of them having a pool, so for SB to say that the pool's always there and they use it all the time seems on par with suddenly announcing Bayside had an elevator, and it's been there all along and people use it all the time.

:I, for one, have heard of this prank as far back as sixteen years ago, and when I first heard it in junior high it was presented as something that had been making the rounds for quite a while. When we got to high school, we always joked about how the gag didn't exactly work there (because that building did in fact have an elevator, albeit not one open to normal student use). — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 17:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::Whether or not the prank exists, I don't think it could be a reference to that. Clearly, Strong Bad isn't pranking anyone--the pool does exist. He isn't selling pool items or fooling people. I never watched Saved by the Bell that much, but I immediately recognized what he was making fun of: places or things suddenly appearing conveniently, which happens as often in the Homestarrunner universe as anywhere. [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 23:33, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

:::At my school, we had a freight elevator I used to move my drums downstairs, and the upperclassmen convinced me there was a snake pit under there. Oh, and on the subject, I thought that was Strong Bad's pool in A Jumping Jack Contest. [[User:Foxtrotblues| - Foxtrotblues]] 23:22, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

::::As I said, I really don't think it's a reference to that whether or not the prank exists. And if it is, it shouldn't be in "Remarks." Are there any objections to removing the fact or at least stuffing it? [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 23:33, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

:::::You should make that fact a splode.[[User:Foxtrotblues|
- Foxtrotblues]] 23:38, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
:Folks: The Pool has been there forever. We have not seen it for 5 years. If the Marshmallow Shop shows up next week, we won't be talking about it appearing out of nowhere. Please see [[Swimming Pool]] for more. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 23:58, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Einstein and Muffled?==
<blockquote>STRONG BAD: So later on anybody wanna get together a game of "Sharks and Minnows"? "Einstein and [muffled]"? "Pregnant and seventeen"?</blockquote>
It seems to me that Strong Bad says "Einstein and Kreskin," likely a refrence to [[wikipedia:kreskin |The Amazing Kreskin]].
I'll refrain from changing the article untile there's a consensus. [[User:216.229.35.170|216.229.35.170]] 23:30, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
:Well, someone just made the edit. Nevermind.[[User:216.229.35.170|216.229.35.170]] 23:33, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
:Second reference to pregnant teenagers, with the Cheat Commando's setting precedence?
::Sorry, I removed that. Noting the first instance of something is ''sometimes'', conceivably, worthwhile. Noting the second and third and so on gets hard. (Plus, I think "seventeen" was a reference to the magazine, though I haven't found a "''Pregnant''" magazine.) —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 16:43, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::I fail to see how you infer a Seventeen magazine reference here. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 23:59, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Inflated The Cheat ==

In regards to the Inside Reference of the Helium email, I'm not certain the cheat is actually inflated, from what I can tell he just seems to be leaning back (or tilting his head up) -{{Tempestryder}}
---He is neither inflated nor lying on his back. I present you with this image.
[[Image:Dacheet.JPG ]]
cessna man!

:I find myself to be skeptical as well. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 05:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::Well, he sure looks inflated to me... Perhaps not quite in the same way, but much rounder in some way. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
:::The cheat is a pudge like thing. He has no feet, it kind of just has skin folds near the bottom of him. In order to swim forward, a normal person would need to kick their feet... apparently the cheat leans his bottom half backward and it causes a bend in him, making him look puffed up. He uses his arms to paddle. This also makes him look kind of like a boat. Regardless, I don't think he is inflated at all.--{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 06:28, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Claiming he's inflated is pure speculation. He could easily be arching his body to propel himself across the water's surface. We really don't know anything about his physiology to assume he can or cannot inflate. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 09:15, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::He looks like a duck. --{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 10:53, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::He's obviously lying on his stomache lifting his head up. {{User:Salty/sig}} 17:01, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:Since most of us seem to be in agreement, should the inside reference to Helium made on the article page be removed? --{{User:Tempestryder}}
::I'd say yes, from the looks of it. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::: I'd say he's a speedboat, or a hydro. Especially because of the sound effects. --{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 04:18, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

:::: now i really really want a the cheat... {{User:Csours/sig}} 05:05, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::He looks poofier, but it could be an artist's error (no offesnse TBC). To see examples of artist errors, watch the first episode of Family Guy. Brian's Head keeps changing shape. It's probably just the difficulty of drawing him in this position. [[User:Foxtrotblues|
- Foxtrotblues]] 23:26, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::(sigh) There's no error, I'm sure. To me, The Cheat is arched back, paddling away, making motorboat sounds. Sometimes it's as simple as it looks. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 00:00, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

== Funny and true ==

It has been hot in Sunnyvale, Ca. I know this because I live there. Unfortunately, I didn't write this one, but I'm glad Strong Bad knows about it. -[[User:Jesselangham|JesseLangham]]
:Yeah, it's been hot in St. Louis, too. It's been constantly in the triple digits. I sent SB an e-mail 'bout it, but I guess it just didn't cut it. Hey, did your power go out? Mine was out for 5 days.{{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 12:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:No, thank god. Of course, we dont have AC, so it wouldnt have made difference, coolness wise. But at least our food didnt cook in the fridge. That blackout must have sucked! -[[User:Jesselangham|JesseLangham]] Aug. 01, 19:51:15 UTC
::Yeah, it did. And I just heard that more people in my area who already had their power out for numerous days are going out again- electric company says it's because of the heat. {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 12:14, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
:::guess what! its hot in texas. everybody here is like: "So What?" its always 100 degrees. and we still go to work, outside, in the sun. uphill. both ways. my sympathy truly goes out to the families who have lost ppl. but seriously guys. {{User:Csours/sig}} 05:17, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Guess what? It's ''always'' hot in Texas. If we lived in Texas, we'd be like "So what?" too. But we don't. And we think it's hot. I'm sorry about the hills. {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 12:14, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Yeah, we know it's hot in Texas. That's why we don't live there. -[[User:Jesselangham|JesseLangham]] Aug. 02, 19:09:45 UTC
:::::It's so hot in Chicago! I'd go [[User:Foxtrotblues|complain]] about it but I don't know what to write... [[User:Foxtrotblues|
- Foxtrotblues]] 23:28, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

===Heat wave===

no doubt about th heat wav. I mean, even in Seattle it's boiling hot! --{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 06:14, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

:In Michigan, my city had a low temperature of 81 degrees F (27 degrees C) this morning. That's a record high minimum temperature. At eleven o'clock last night, it still felt like (heat index) 100 F (38 C). And that's not the worst of it. Ask the people from St. Louis and central Illinois how hot it is. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 12:27, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

::I live in St. Louis and was getting up in the triple digits pretty much all of last week. {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 12:54, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Most of the north SF Bay Area was up in the 110s last weekend (I think the high in my city was 115?). Plus, traffic was terrible as a lot of lights were out. It was awful trying to get around in a car without a/c. Imagine our relief when the heat wave started going down--"Yes! It's in the high 90s!!!!" [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 16:39, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::You got that right. Here in NC, summer is hard enough normally, but this summer is crazy. It's still in the 80s at 9PM.--[[User:Jnelson09|Jnelson09]] 01:33, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
: Actually, I live on the outskirts of Seattle, and the heat wave has (at least for now) passed around here. It dropped to the 60s or low 70s (normal for summer in this area) last weekend. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 19:14, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

This discussion might be better suited to the [http://forum.hrwiki.org/ forum].  I'll leave this here as it displays the meteorogical significance of this toon, but let's move future weather-related discussion to the forum, please. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 00:03, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

== Ool, not Pool ==

After Homestar crashes through Strong Bad's roof. He says "Uh, Strong Bad, I think that total wave ruined your ool." That's "Ool" not "Pool" as the transcript currently reads. This is in reference to the "There is no P in our pool, please keep it that way" Sign referenced in the toon. -[[User:Jesselangham|JesseLangham]]
: You could have just updated the transcript yourself and explained your reasoning in the summary... --{{User:Jay/sig}} 00:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:: ....oh yeah...duh... Thanks!
:::i think he says "that toadal wave ruined your ool... {{User:Csours/sig}} 05:11, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::::It's hard to tell with his lisp. He's not known for pronouncing his Ts. I think "Total" works better anyway. -[[User:Jesselangham|JesseLangham]] Aug. 02, 19:10:58 UTC

== Goofs - The parenthesis ==

Are you guys sure this is a goof? When i first watched it I took it as an apostrophe. Ie: for the marking of a missing letter --ME!

:I'm confused, so I'll elaborate on what we're talking about: it's the ( right before "Notice." There is an apostrophe on the sign for comparison, i.e. in 'ool. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 04:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

:: Ahhh dont mind me then, your right i was wrong. I thought it meant the apostrophe in 'ool :D

== Marzi's green hair ==

Any chance that her green hair is a reference to Diff'rent Strokes? There was an ep where Kimberly washed her hair using acid rain water (which contained lots of chemicals, like the 'ool) and the result was her hair turned green. [[User:AcidHelmNun|Mike]] 06:25, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

:: Was I the only one reminded of that Falling Sand java game? The "plant" sand is green and burns away like Marzi's hair.
:According from a few posts in the forum, it's apparently a somewhat common real-world occurance for blondes to have their hair turn green from pool chemicals.
I don't think it's a reference to any particular TV show. My wife has very thin, natural blond hair, and when she was young and at the pool all the time, her hair would turn very green. It's a reaction to the chlorine in the water. So, it's not a problem limited to dyed blonds as the article currently states.--[[User:Eepiccolo|eepiccolo]] 15:20, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I admit it, I was reaching. ;) [[User:AcidHelmNun|Mike]] 04:39, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

I have naturally blonde hair, and my hair turns a slight greenish tint when I've been in a pool with chlorine. It's a natural occurance. And it washes out. --S

== Nu-uh! Still the third wall! ==

The article currently states that when Strong Bad explains what Strongbadia is and is not, it is one of the most abrupt fourth wall breaks to date. There was a discussion over a similar incident a while back in the [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Talk:mile talk page for "mile"]. Basically, the Strong Bad emails are based on the premise that he is answering his emails for an audience. I honestly don't care that much about the consistency, but these are the kinds of things the wiki loves to bicker over.--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 16:10, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:Yup. That's why I removed it. Even if it were a break, it's certainly not "one of the most abrupt to date", but it's not. What we're seeing qualifies as Strong Bad's imagination--characters aren't really blank spaces--and simply pointing out which location is Strong Badia and which are not... I have no idea how that's supposed to be a break. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 17:17, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::I put it back. When I originally wrote it, I admitted it could be reworded, so if you see a way to fix it up then feel free. The break is ''not'' the part where we see the character cutouts. The break ''is'' the part where Strong Bad freezes the supposedly live "webcast", takes us on a trip around FCUSA, offers us a high five, and then restarts the action. Essentially he is speaking directly ''for TBC'' and addressing the real viewers—you and me—about an apparently common misconception ''outside the continuity'' of the actual email. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 17:44, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Just wondering--where is it ever stated that sbemails are live? [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 23:34, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::You do have a point there — in [[Weclome Back]], Strong Bad was attempting to record a sbemail with a video camera. Nevertheless, that one uncharacteristically had "REC" and a flashing dot in the corner of the screen. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 23:38, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::Other instances include The Cheat's watching [[huttah]] on his computer. But never mind the "live" bit; it's secondary to my point. My point is that TBC, using Strong Bad, brought the email to a complete halt and directly addressed the fans in order to clear up something a lot of fans no doubt get wrong. It's also noteworthy that the little digression was not brought up in the rest of the email. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:47, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::I thought that Strong Bad pointed out what Strong Badia was because he wanted to trick people into thinking that the pool is in Strong Badia. "In the pool that we've always had... that we use all the time..." reinforces this. This is beside the point of whether or not it's a FWB. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 23:56, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
"Third wall"... there's a term I've never heard used before... --{{User:Jay/sig}} 23:50, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:While I accept that you may be joking there: breaking the fourth wall comes from the thought that the front of the stage in a theater represents a wall of whatever room is portrayed on the set, so by breaking that wall it allows the characters to see (and interact with) the audience. (I have also heard it said that the first wall is letting the characters know the script, 2nd is awareness that thy are in a play, 3rd is ability to change anything based on these, and 4th is audience involvement, but i dont accept this) -- The annony formerly known as DumbMuscle (sister's compy due to technical problems)
:: I know what "breaking the fourth wall" means. My comment was directed at the title of this topic ("Still the third wall!") So... Strong Bad's breaking the third wall or something? (As a note, I have never heard of the "first wall is letting the characters know the script" etc. thing before and think that whoever told it to you made it up.) --{{User:Jay/sig}} 19:20, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Sou' Sou'west or South Southwest? ==

In the second Easter Eggs, Strong Sad clearly says "sou' sou'west" instead of "south southwest". Is this a reference to something? I recall similar pronounciations for compass points in the movie "Master and Commander", is it old British Navy jargon? At any rate, I changed the transcript (without explaination, my bad) to reflect this contraction but it was reverted, so I figured I'd start a discussion topic on it.--[[User:Adrock|Adrock]] 20:20, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
: I don't think it's an intentional reference as much as just how it's said in that dialect [[User:Vash Lupin VI|Vash Lupin VI]] 20:32, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::I don't know. On one hand, they could be making some kind of joke, or Matt could have just stuttered {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 20:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
"South-southwest" is one of the [[Wikipedia:Boxing the compass|principal points]] on a compass.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 21:01, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::The reference is to a NorEaster, which is a typical way of describing a storm that comes in from the NorthEast.
:::He definitely said sou'sou'west, and yes, this is how mariners talk. among other ways.{{User:Csours/sig}} 05:35, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Loafing's got a point there. {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 12:16, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::::It's not a reference to anything. Strong Sad is just dropping consonants because he's relaxed/tired. My NOAA weather radio is always telling me winds are south-southwest at 5-10 knots. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 12:28, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Gah! To the anonymous poster who "defined" a Nor'Easter, you made this meteorologist cringe! Nor'easters move TO the northeast, and typically have northeast winds on their northwestern side ... they definitely do not move southwestward (or from the northeast) ... [[User:Spell4yr|Spell4yr]] 00:53, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Was this changed recently, and I missed the memo? From [[Wikipedia:Windsock]]:<blockquote>Note that wind directions are conventionally specified as being the compass point from which the wind originates; so a windsock pointing due north indicates a southerly wind</blockquote>This is the way I've always seen it quoted... a nor'easter blows ''from'' the northeast, a sou'wester blows ''from'' the southwest, and is also a type of [[Wikipedia:Sou'wester|sailor's hat]]. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 01:21, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

== Twin Characters? ==

Does Strong Bad interrupting himself to explain what Strongbadia is count as an appearance of [[Twin Characters]]? {{User:Trey56/sig}} 22:15, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:I don't think so. I think it's a fourth-wall break, discussed above. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:50, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::From Twin Characters: "where a single character appears more than once in the same scene." That's all the description given. Why can't it be both? [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 03:49, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Usually, in the Twin Characters instances, they tend to react to each other, I think. Strong Bad's pauses the action, coming up in a separate place entirely. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::::Agree with DG up above. It's a seperate instance of the same character, the original footage is stopped so that he can make a point and resume. They are in fact the same Strong Bad so it is not an instance of twin characters. Maybe the description should be updated so that it makes more sense. I imagine for the twin characters situation to apply they must react to one another or it must be done in a way so that both characters are in the same scene in "real-time." Or in other words, no pausing the action and then resuming like in this toon.--{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 05:21, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::yea, not twin characters, post-production. {{User:Csours/sig}} 05:38, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== strong mad-nami ==

this might be too vague/general/overanalytical for a fun fact, but strong mad jumping into the pool is similar to the action of a tsunami, ie, you dont see the effect in deep water, only when the wave gets to the shallows does the compression lead to a severe rise in water level. just a thought. {{User:Csours/sig}} 05:21, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

It is too overanalytical. But we can make it better:

The way the tidal wave behaves is similar to the behavior of a [[wikipedia:Tsunami|Tsunami]].
[[User:Foxtrotblues|
- Foxtrotblues]] 23:36, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

==Left-handed?==

When Strong Bad says "Gimme a high five" he raises his left hand. Could this possibly mean he left-handed. Being right-handed, I find it fairly uncomfortable to high five with my left hand. {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 19:05, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
: Although I'm personally of the persuasion that TBC just don't bother keeping track, the consensus here is that Strong Bad is [[Left Handedness|ambidextrous]] (like me!) --{{User:Jay/sig}} 19:10, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

::Being so versatile on the computer, I'd imagine he would be!
[[User:Foxtrotblues|
- Foxtrotblues]] 23:40, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Tomby, Dick and harry ==

Is Strong Bad's spelling of tom B as "Tomby" a reference to the videogame character of the same name? - Grover Junior
: No such character, Stu. Perhaps you meant [[Wikipedia:Tomba|Tomba]]? --{{User:Jay/sig}} 20:02, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::Was about to say, ol' Jaycob but you interrupted my edit, although it is spelled 'Tombi' in some versions, hence my mistake - Grover Junior.

==Total wave or turtle wave?==
What exactly does homestar say at the end of the email? I think he says turtle wave. If he does, then it might a reference to the Kamehameha from Dragonball Z. Thoughts?
[[User:66.65.115.218|66.65.115.218]] 20:54, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Definitely "toadal" or phonetically similar. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 23:54, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
: "Reference to the Kamehameha"?! Uh... how? Am I missing something? Anyway, '''total'''. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 23:56, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Homestar mixing up words ==

Right now there's an "Inside Reference" that says: "Homestar, as he has done many times, mixes up two words ("total" and "tidal")."

Isn't Homestar mixing up words far too common, general and obvious occurrence to qualify as an Inside Reference? It's not a reference to anything; it's just the way Homestar talks. [[User:LitigationMattson|LitigationMattson]] 01:29, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Talk:keep cool

LitigationMattson — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 01:29:44 GMT

LitigationMattson: Homestar mixing up words

==DS?==

What do you suppose Homestar's marking as "ds" means? I can think of one that's not family friendly, but other options? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 19:23, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
:My guess is on Dumb Star, or something like that. He previously called Homestar that in an email, I think, but I am not sure. {{User:Rogue Leader/sig}} 19:25, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::I'm guessing it's a reference to the Nintendo DS. It has been shown again and again that TBC are Nintendo fans. At least, the DS was what I first thought of when I saw that. My two cents. {{User:Alcnolien/sig}} 20:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
:::It's almost certainly "duckshirt." That's pretty much a synonym for Homestar, and in [[flashback]], SB uses "Duckshirt" as Homestar's name. [[User:LitigationMattson|LitigationMattson]] 20:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::::I concur: Duckshirt is the answer. [[User:Ilko Skevüld's Teh C|Ilko Skevüld's Teh C]] 14:53, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::Yea, I'd have to say duck shirt, it fits better than the other options. [[User:Vash Lupin VI|Vash Lupin VI]] 20:32, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Maybe it's just the "sb" on the Strong Bad cutout mirrored. {{User:The_Spainish_Inquisition/sig}}
::If that's the case then the "s" would be backwards.
:When I first saw it, it seemed like the "ds" was just a (poor) phonetic spelling of "this". He IS saying that as he cycles through the images. Not everything needs to be a reference! :P This simply seems like a bit of overthinking to me. 16:45, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::Yes, not everything needs to be a reference, but all the other labels are names or nicknames. It's not overthinking if things like it are obviously references.[[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 23:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

Dosent DS mean Dip Sh**? I remember that from my elemntary school years.--{{User:Finest1/sig}} 12:17, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
:I personally thought Nintendo DS. But duck shirt seems like the best choice. [[User:Foxtrotblues|
Foxtrotblues]] 23:09, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Baseball reference ==

Strongsad's Easteregg mentioning Baseball could be a reference to the MLB Trade Deadline (which ends in 20 minutes)
:Doubtful - TGS11 had a baseball ref too. I think TBC just like baseball. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 19:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

== Sticklyman's Return! ==
No running, no diving, and no swimming; All represented by the pudding-shoveler himself! --[[User:207.69.139.8|207.69.139.8]] 19:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

Ah, but are you sure it's Sticlyman? Does he have a shovel? Is he into light fighting? Or maybe he's just the typical guy-on-a-sign stick man. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 20:14, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
:I hate you. My hopes and dreams rise up and you cruelly shoot them down with your harsh words. I will have my revenge, jerk! --[[User:207.69.139.8|207.69.139.8]] 20:22, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::That was kind'a rude, Qermac, but I suspect a block-in-progress, Mr. IP {{User:Stongbah/sig}} 21:01, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
:::There was nothing rude about what Qermaq said. He was just making the facts obvious.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 21:44, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::::In a somewhat funny way too. I don't think it's sticklyman. Although I'd like to see him return for another challeeeeenge one day!--{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 06:31, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

:::::Don't block the IP. It's real hard to express sarcasm on the 'net; it might have been a sarcastic remark. On that note, I think Stinkoman killed Sticklyman. --[[User:Foxtrotblues|
- Foxtrotblues]] 23:15, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== no clicky on the lappy ==

when you click the lappy's screen, the pressure waves don't show up.

:Sure they do. I just did it. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 20:14, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

::They don't show up after Strong Bad falls through the roof. --[[User:Ragey|Ragey]] 22:41, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

== Up, A, and Start ==

Does this reference any particular video game? If it were just Up+A, I'd be sure it was a reference to Metroid or both Legend of Zelda games on the NES (using that code on a second controller would save your progress and restart) but I can't think of any games that used Up+A and Start. -- [[User:Frickinsellout|Frickinsellout]] 20:29, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
:You are almost certainly right. In fact, the Up+A on the second controller trick only works when you have paused (pressed start) on the first controller. I'm going to add it to the real-world references section. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 20:58, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::I don't think it refers to any video game, he's just making up a cheat code. [[User:Swimma Dan|Swimma Dan]] 22:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::I agree with Swimma Dan. The Metroid and Zelda references don't make sense because you have to press Start before hand. That's not Up, A, Start, that's Start, A, Up. And if we're going to accept Kirby's Dream Land, where it's Up, A, Select, then are we going to accept codes that go Up, B, Start, or Down, A, Start, or A, Up, Start? Unless someone can find a game code that goes exactly "Up, A, Start", I think this should be changed to a more general reference about video game codes. [[User:70.224.249.166|70.224.249.166]] 00:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Agreed, I figured it was just a generic cheat code thing, not a reference to a specific game. The Zelda reference might make sense, but I think the Kirby one is really stretching it (it's not even the same code!). As for the Metroid thing, I'm probably going to make myself sound really stupid here, but didn't Metroid use ''passwords'', not save files? At least the US version did. {{User:Saturn/sig}} 01:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Metroid did use passwords, Mr. Saturn. However, if you paused and hit Up+A on Controller 2, you would get brought to the password screen, and you can restart the game from there. I've seen this trick in the various tool-assisted speedruns of the game. -- [[User:Frickinsellout|Frickinsellout]] 04:33, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::I'd have to agree with the Generic Game Code people. We could make a poll though {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 12:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::Another point in favor of a reference to the Zelda games and Metroid is that it fits the context. In the games, you would want to save your progress using this trick before you went in to a dungeon or some place where you might die. In the toon, Strong Bad urges swimmers who have just eaten to do this before they reenter the pool, presumably so that if they died they could start again from the point right before entering the pool. If I'm not mistaken, that's part of the joke SB's making. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 19:38, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::::"If they died they could start again"? I don't see that at all. To me, it sounds like he's just adding something ridiculous onto a list of other ridiculous things. I agree that if TBC were referencing those games, they would have said "Start, A, Up." I think it's just general. [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 23:18, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::::Well, I think there's enough of a consensus here to remove the fact in question. Oh well :) {{User:Trey56/sig}} 23:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

== Long Pants? ==

Is it me, or is Homestar wearing his 'long pants' in the 'ool? (~InvaderJem)
:According the Strongbad, he doesn't have [[long pants]]. {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 12:46, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::True, but that's why I put quote-marks. Homestar insists that he wears long pants, though...
:::What are you getting at? {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 20:48, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Since his "long pants" are really just his bare skin, what else would he be wearing in the pool? It's not like he can take ''that'' off. --[[User:H-ko|H-ko]] 21:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::I guess that's true.

== Pooling ==

How about the fact that the "pool" had been previously mentioned here [http://www.homestarrunner.com/hs6.html]

:I think that might pass off as a fun fact. Nice find, there! (~InvaderJem)
::See [[Swimming Pool]].{{User:Loafing/sig}} 21:30, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

It seems more likely to be the pool from [[A Jumping Jack Contest]].
:Was there not also a pool mentioned in [[other days]], when Strong Bad had swim practice? Apparently he's finished them as well as lifeguard training since then. [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 23:45, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
::[[other days]] doesn't directly mention a pool, but where else would Strong Bad and Strong Sad have swim practice?{{User:The_Spainish_Inquisition/sig}}
:::They had a pool back in [[A Jumping Jack Contest]] and [[Theme Song Video]]. [[User:75.22.195.241|75.22.195.241]] 02:45, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::The Color Pallette in the backdrop of the 'ool is similar to the older cartoons, too. [[User:Foxtrotblues|
- Foxtrotblues]] 23:18, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

:::::Color palette? Huh? Anyway, [[Swimming Pool]] mentions all the above. That's the place for pool sightings. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 23:56, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Mr. Chek(h)ov ==

I'm pretty sure this is a double reference to both the writer and the Star Trek character. Yeah, they're spelled differently, but who ever calls Anton Chekhov "Mr. Chekhov"? However, Kirk did call his Chekov "Mr." all the time...
:It's not going to be TTATOT. If they were referencing Star Trek, they'd have spelled it Chekov. They didn't, so I doubt it's a ST reference at all, especially as Chekhov is even more famous. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 02:03, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::Not only that, but Anoton Chekhov is someone Strong Sad would be reading. It's Strong Sad. I mean, come on.{{User:Bassbone/sig}} 07:38, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Yes. Obviously, Strong Sad would read Chekhov. So it's a reference to the author. But nobody calls Anton Chekhov "Mr.". That is obviously (I think) a reference to the Star Trek character. It's a joke. And I think that it's worth putting in the explanation because many people won't know what it's about. {{User:Loafing/sig}} 09:27, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
I removed the Chekov reference based on points above. It's this, that and the other thing if it's a reference to both. And it's spelled like the author, not the navigator, so it's clear which was being referenced. Now, IF "Mr. Chekov" is included, I can live with it, but not without. Otherwise it's like saying that Monkey D is a reference to Sunny D, Tenacious D and Sandra Dee. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 09:23, 1 August 2006 (UTC) (Add: And by "living with it" I am saying I still don't agree, but can let it go. But we're a bit too generous in claiming what's a reference around here. Without an explanation of why "Mr. Chechov" might be referring to a guy with a differently-spelled name, it seems out of place and random, and reduces the knowledge-base-ness of the page.)
:Nice, we were working on it at the same time... I reckon "Mr. Checkov" is simply such an iconic name that "Mr. Chekhov" is an obvious reference for someone who knows Star Trek. And there have been made enough ST references by TBC that I believe they do know ST. {{User:Loafing/sig}} 09:33, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::Yup; sorry Qermaq, but I gotta disagree with you on this one. If it's not a reference, it's a goof, and I'd like to think they know how to spell it. Plus, suppose they were simply thinking of Chekhov, and Chekov never entered their minds; why choose the "Mr." title? It's a strange choice for an anthology or biography. And it would be a stranger coincidence for it to mirror the Star Trek usage accidentally. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 16:35, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Nah, I don't think this is a goof. Chekhov sounds like the kind of stuff that Strong Sad was reading. He doesn't strike me as the type who reads Star Trek anthologies. Anyway, the way the fact is written now, everybody can make up their own mind. {{User:Loafing/sig}} 20:21, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

== Progressive progress ==

Is anyone still currently working on the transcript? When I stopped, I took the "inprogress" template off... If whoever's working on it now is going really slowly, that's one thing, but it's kinda rude to leave the template there and just stop. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 21:56, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

== The school aways had an elevator! ==

Is anyone else thinking that this particular line might be a reference to Saved by the Bell? Specifically, that time the school suddenly had an elevator for Zack to deliver Mr. Belding's son in? - [[User:81.157.53.124|81.157.53.124]] 21:59, 31 July 2006 (UTC)

--I think it is a refrence to that, and many other TV shows where the charecters go to a second floor, basement, pool, etc.

Or, maybe it was like my school, where there was no elevator, and there was no swimming pool, but all the freshman were sold swimming pool passes and elevator passes by the upperclassmen.
::It makes more sense that it was the Saved by the Bell episode, because it's referring to how their cartoon and the TV show suddenly and conveniently had something that was never obviously there before for sake of the plot.--{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 06:24, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

:::However: they '''have''' always had this pool. Since one of the very first animated toons. So the analogy doesn't really apply, does it? {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 09:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Yeah, that's true. I'd say maybe TBC forgot, but if you go to the flash file for Theme Song Video and look at how they did the water effect, it looks like the same piece makes up the wavy top of the water in both toons. *shrug* It makes more sense the way I said it. lol. I'm not really sure on this.--{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 18:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
Someone, perhaps anonymous above, added a Fun Fact linkin SB's line to a supposedly common prank by upperclassmen of making freshmen believe in nonexistant pools or elevators. I left it alone simply because I can't think of another way to make sense of his line, but at the moment it's a purely anecdotal Fun Fact. If it's going to stay, it would be nice to have some kind of documentation showing that this has happened to more than one person. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 16:49, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::When I saw it, I immediately thought of Saved By The Bell. I've been watching the sbemails for a long time, and I hadn't remembered the pool. Even if they remembered that it was there, the average viewer has never heard of them having a pool, so for SB to say that the pool's always there and they use it all the time seems on par with suddenly announcing Bayside had an elevator, and it's been there all along and people use it all the time.

:I, for one, have heard of this prank as far back as sixteen years ago, and when I first heard it in junior high it was presented as something that had been making the rounds for quite a while. When we got to high school, we always joked about how the gag didn't exactly work there (because that building did in fact have an elevator, albeit not one open to normal student use). — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 17:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::Whether or not the prank exists, I don't think it could be a reference to that. Clearly, Strong Bad isn't pranking anyone--the pool does exist. He isn't selling pool items or fooling people. I never watched Saved by the Bell that much, but I immediately recognized what he was making fun of: places or things suddenly appearing conveniently, which happens as often in the Homestarrunner universe as anywhere. [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 23:33, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

:::At my school, we had a freight elevator I used to move my drums downstairs, and the upperclassmen convinced me there was a snake pit under there. Oh, and on the subject, I thought that was Strong Bad's pool in A Jumping Jack Contest. [[User:Foxtrotblues| - Foxtrotblues]] 23:22, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

::::As I said, I really don't think it's a reference to that whether or not the prank exists. And if it is, it shouldn't be in "Remarks." Are there any objections to removing the fact or at least stuffing it? [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 23:33, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

:::::You should make that fact a splode.[[User:Foxtrotblues|
- Foxtrotblues]] 23:38, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
:Folks: The Pool has been there forever. We have not seen it for 5 years. If the Marshmallow Shop shows up next week, we won't be talking about it appearing out of nowhere. Please see [[Swimming Pool]] for more. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 23:58, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Einstein and Muffled?==
<blockquote>STRONG BAD: So later on anybody wanna get together a game of "Sharks and Minnows"? "Einstein and [muffled]"? "Pregnant and seventeen"?</blockquote>
It seems to me that Strong Bad says "Einstein and Kreskin," likely a refrence to [[wikipedia:kreskin |The Amazing Kreskin]].
I'll refrain from changing the article untile there's a consensus. [[User:216.229.35.170|216.229.35.170]] 23:30, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
:Well, someone just made the edit. Nevermind.[[User:216.229.35.170|216.229.35.170]] 23:33, 31 July 2006 (UTC)
:Second reference to pregnant teenagers, with the Cheat Commando's setting precedence?
::Sorry, I removed that. Noting the first instance of something is ''sometimes'', conceivably, worthwhile. Noting the second and third and so on gets hard. (Plus, I think "seventeen" was a reference to the magazine, though I haven't found a "''Pregnant''" magazine.) —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 16:43, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::I fail to see how you infer a Seventeen magazine reference here. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 23:59, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Inflated The Cheat ==

In regards to the Inside Reference of the Helium email, I'm not certain the cheat is actually inflated, from what I can tell he just seems to be leaning back (or tilting his head up) -{{Tempestryder}}
---He is neither inflated nor lying on his back. I present you with this image.
[[Image:Dacheet.JPG ]]
cessna man!

:I find myself to be skeptical as well. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 05:04, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::Well, he sure looks inflated to me... Perhaps not quite in the same way, but much rounder in some way. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
:::The cheat is a pudge like thing. He has no feet, it kind of just has skin folds near the bottom of him. In order to swim forward, a normal person would need to kick their feet... apparently the cheat leans his bottom half backward and it causes a bend in him, making him look puffed up. He uses his arms to paddle. This also makes him look kind of like a boat. Regardless, I don't think he is inflated at all.--{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 06:28, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Claiming he's inflated is pure speculation. He could easily be arching his body to propel himself across the water's surface. We really don't know anything about his physiology to assume he can or cannot inflate. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 09:15, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::He looks like a duck. --{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 10:53, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::He's obviously lying on his stomache lifting his head up. {{User:Salty/sig}} 17:01, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:Since most of us seem to be in agreement, should the inside reference to Helium made on the article page be removed? --{{User:Tempestryder}}
::I'd say yes, from the looks of it. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::: I'd say he's a speedboat, or a hydro. Especially because of the sound effects. --{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 04:18, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

:::: now i really really want a the cheat... {{User:Csours/sig}} 05:05, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::He looks poofier, but it could be an artist's error (no offesnse TBC). To see examples of artist errors, watch the first episode of Family Guy. Brian's Head keeps changing shape. It's probably just the difficulty of drawing him in this position. [[User:Foxtrotblues|
- Foxtrotblues]] 23:26, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::(sigh) There's no error, I'm sure. To me, The Cheat is arched back, paddling away, making motorboat sounds. Sometimes it's as simple as it looks. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 00:00, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

== Funny and true ==

It has been hot in Sunnyvale, Ca. I know this because I live there. Unfortunately, I didn't write this one, but I'm glad Strong Bad knows about it. -[[User:Jesselangham|JesseLangham]]
:Yeah, it's been hot in St. Louis, too. It's been constantly in the triple digits. I sent SB an e-mail 'bout it, but I guess it just didn't cut it. Hey, did your power go out? Mine was out for 5 days.{{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 12:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:No, thank god. Of course, we dont have AC, so it wouldnt have made difference, coolness wise. But at least our food didnt cook in the fridge. That blackout must have sucked! -[[User:Jesselangham|JesseLangham]] Aug. 01, 19:51:15 UTC
::Yeah, it did. And I just heard that more people in my area who already had their power out for numerous days are going out again- electric company says it's because of the heat. {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 12:14, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
:::guess what! its hot in texas. everybody here is like: "So What?" its always 100 degrees. and we still go to work, outside, in the sun. uphill. both ways. my sympathy truly goes out to the families who have lost ppl. but seriously guys. {{User:Csours/sig}} 05:17, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Guess what? It's ''always'' hot in Texas. If we lived in Texas, we'd be like "So what?" too. But we don't. And we think it's hot. I'm sorry about the hills. {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 12:14, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Yeah, we know it's hot in Texas. That's why we don't live there. -[[User:Jesselangham|JesseLangham]] Aug. 02, 19:09:45 UTC
:::::It's so hot in Chicago! I'd go [[User:Foxtrotblues|complain]] about it but I don't know what to write... [[User:Foxtrotblues|
- Foxtrotblues]] 23:28, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

===Heat wave===

no doubt about th heat wav. I mean, even in Seattle it's boiling hot! --{{User:Super Martyo Brother/sig}} 06:14, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

:In Michigan, my city had a low temperature of 81 degrees F (27 degrees C) this morning. That's a record high minimum temperature. At eleven o'clock last night, it still felt like (heat index) 100 F (38 C). And that's not the worst of it. Ask the people from St. Louis and central Illinois how hot it is. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 12:27, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

::I live in St. Louis and was getting up in the triple digits pretty much all of last week. {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 12:54, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Most of the north SF Bay Area was up in the 110s last weekend (I think the high in my city was 115?). Plus, traffic was terrible as a lot of lights were out. It was awful trying to get around in a car without a/c. Imagine our relief when the heat wave started going down--"Yes! It's in the high 90s!!!!" [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 16:39, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::You got that right. Here in NC, summer is hard enough normally, but this summer is crazy. It's still in the 80s at 9PM.--[[User:Jnelson09|Jnelson09]] 01:33, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
: Actually, I live on the outskirts of Seattle, and the heat wave has (at least for now) passed around here. It dropped to the 60s or low 70s (normal for summer in this area) last weekend. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 19:14, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

This discussion might be better suited to the [http://forum.hrwiki.org/ forum].  I'll leave this here as it displays the meteorogical significance of this toon, but let's move future weather-related discussion to the forum, please. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 00:03, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

== Ool, not Pool ==

After Homestar crashes through Strong Bad's roof. He says "Uh, Strong Bad, I think that total wave ruined your ool." That's "Ool" not "Pool" as the transcript currently reads. This is in reference to the "There is no P in our pool, please keep it that way" Sign referenced in the toon. -[[User:Jesselangham|JesseLangham]]
: You could have just updated the transcript yourself and explained your reasoning in the summary... --{{User:Jay/sig}} 00:13, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:: ....oh yeah...duh... Thanks!
:::i think he says "that toadal wave ruined your ool... {{User:Csours/sig}} 05:11, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::::It's hard to tell with his lisp. He's not known for pronouncing his Ts. I think "Total" works better anyway. -[[User:Jesselangham|JesseLangham]] Aug. 02, 19:10:58 UTC

== Goofs - The parenthesis ==

Are you guys sure this is a goof? When i first watched it I took it as an apostrophe. Ie: for the marking of a missing letter --ME!

:I'm confused, so I'll elaborate on what we're talking about: it's the ( right before "Notice." There is an apostrophe on the sign for comparison, i.e. in 'ool. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 04:07, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

:: Ahhh dont mind me then, your right i was wrong. I thought it meant the apostrophe in 'ool :D

== Marzi's green hair ==

Any chance that her green hair is a reference to Diff'rent Strokes? There was an ep where Kimberly washed her hair using acid rain water (which contained lots of chemicals, like the 'ool) and the result was her hair turned green. [[User:AcidHelmNun|Mike]] 06:25, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

:: Was I the only one reminded of that Falling Sand java game? The "plant" sand is green and burns away like Marzi's hair.
:According from a few posts in the forum, it's apparently a somewhat common real-world occurance for blondes to have their hair turn green from pool chemicals.
I don't think it's a reference to any particular TV show. My wife has very thin, natural blond hair, and when she was young and at the pool all the time, her hair would turn very green. It's a reaction to the chlorine in the water. So, it's not a problem limited to dyed blonds as the article currently states.--[[User:Eepiccolo|eepiccolo]] 15:20, 1 August 2006 (UTC)

I admit it, I was reaching. ;) [[User:AcidHelmNun|Mike]] 04:39, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

I have naturally blonde hair, and my hair turns a slight greenish tint when I've been in a pool with chlorine. It's a natural occurance. And it washes out. --S

== Nu-uh! Still the third wall! ==

The article currently states that when Strong Bad explains what Strongbadia is and is not, it is one of the most abrupt fourth wall breaks to date. There was a discussion over a similar incident a while back in the [http://www.hrwiki.org/index.php/Talk:mile talk page for "mile"]. Basically, the Strong Bad emails are based on the premise that he is answering his emails for an audience. I honestly don't care that much about the consistency, but these are the kinds of things the wiki loves to bicker over.--[[User:Bobo the King|Bobo the King]] 16:10, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:Yup. That's why I removed it. Even if it were a break, it's certainly not "one of the most abrupt to date", but it's not. What we're seeing qualifies as Strong Bad's imagination--characters aren't really blank spaces--and simply pointing out which location is Strong Badia and which are not... I have no idea how that's supposed to be a break. —[[User:AbdiViklas|AbdiViklas]] 17:17, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::I put it back. When I originally wrote it, I admitted it could be reworded, so if you see a way to fix it up then feel free. The break is ''not'' the part where we see the character cutouts. The break ''is'' the part where Strong Bad freezes the supposedly live "webcast", takes us on a trip around FCUSA, offers us a high five, and then restarts the action. Essentially he is speaking directly ''for TBC'' and addressing the real viewers—you and me—about an apparently common misconception ''outside the continuity'' of the actual email. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 17:44, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Just wondering--where is it ever stated that sbemails are live? [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 23:34, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::You do have a point there — in [[Weclome Back]], Strong Bad was attempting to record a sbemail with a video camera. Nevertheless, that one uncharacteristically had "REC" and a flashing dot in the corner of the screen. {{User:Trey56/sig}} 23:38, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:::::Other instances include The Cheat's watching [[huttah]] on his computer. But never mind the "live" bit; it's secondary to my point. My point is that TBC, using Strong Bad, brought the email to a complete halt and directly addressed the fans in order to clear up something a lot of fans no doubt get wrong. It's also noteworthy that the little digression was not brought up in the rest of the email. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:47, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::I thought that Strong Bad pointed out what Strong Badia was because he wanted to trick people into thinking that the pool is in Strong Badia. "In the pool that we've always had... that we use all the time..." reinforces this. This is beside the point of whether or not it's a FWB. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 23:56, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
"Third wall"... there's a term I've never heard used before... --{{User:Jay/sig}} 23:50, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:While I accept that you may be joking there: breaking the fourth wall comes from the thought that the front of the stage in a theater represents a wall of whatever room is portrayed on the set, so by breaking that wall it allows the characters to see (and interact with) the audience. (I have also heard it said that the first wall is letting the characters know the script, 2nd is awareness that thy are in a play, 3rd is ability to change anything based on these, and 4th is audience involvement, but i dont accept this) -- The annony formerly known as DumbMuscle (sister's compy due to technical problems)
:: I know what "breaking the fourth wall" means. My comment was directed at the title of this topic ("Still the third wall!") So... Strong Bad's breaking the third wall or something? (As a note, I have never heard of the "first wall is letting the characters know the script" etc. thing before and think that whoever told it to you made it up.) --{{User:Jay/sig}} 19:20, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Sou' Sou'west or South Southwest? ==

In the second Easter Eggs, Strong Sad clearly says "sou' sou'west" instead of "south southwest". Is this a reference to something? I recall similar pronounciations for compass points in the movie "Master and Commander", is it old British Navy jargon? At any rate, I changed the transcript (without explaination, my bad) to reflect this contraction but it was reverted, so I figured I'd start a discussion topic on it.--[[User:Adrock|Adrock]] 20:20, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
: I don't think it's an intentional reference as much as just how it's said in that dialect [[User:Vash Lupin VI|Vash Lupin VI]] 20:32, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::I don't know. On one hand, they could be making some kind of joke, or Matt could have just stuttered {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 20:52, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
"South-southwest" is one of the [[Wikipedia:Boxing the compass|principal points]] on a compass.{{User:Loafing/sig}} 21:01, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::The reference is to a NorEaster, which is a typical way of describing a storm that comes in from the NorthEast.
:::He definitely said sou'sou'west, and yes, this is how mariners talk. among other ways.{{User:Csours/sig}} 05:35, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Loafing's got a point there. {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 12:16, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::::It's not a reference to anything. Strong Sad is just dropping consonants because he's relaxed/tired. My NOAA weather radio is always telling me winds are south-southwest at 5-10 knots. —[[User:BazookaJoe|BazookaJoe]] 12:28, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Gah! To the anonymous poster who "defined" a Nor'Easter, you made this meteorologist cringe! Nor'easters move TO the northeast, and typically have northeast winds on their northwestern side ... they definitely do not move southwestward (or from the northeast) ... [[User:Spell4yr|Spell4yr]] 00:53, 3 August 2006 (UTC)
::::Was this changed recently, and I missed the memo? From [[Wikipedia:Windsock]]:<blockquote>Note that wind directions are conventionally specified as being the compass point from which the wind originates; so a windsock pointing due north indicates a southerly wind</blockquote>This is the way I've always seen it quoted... a nor'easter blows ''from'' the northeast, a sou'wester blows ''from'' the southwest, and is also a type of [[Wikipedia:Sou'wester|sailor's hat]]. {{User:Phlip/sig}} 01:21, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

== Twin Characters? ==

Does Strong Bad interrupting himself to explain what Strongbadia is count as an appearance of [[Twin Characters]]? {{User:Trey56/sig}} 22:15, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
:I don't think so. I think it's a fourth-wall break, discussed above. — [[User:It's dot com|It's dot com]] 23:50, 1 August 2006 (UTC)
::From Twin Characters: "where a single character appears more than once in the same scene." That's all the description given. Why can't it be both? [[User:So makey outy|So makey outy]] 03:49, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
:::Usually, in the Twin Characters instances, they tend to react to each other, I think. Strong Bad's pauses the action, coming up in a separate place entirely. --[[User:DorianGray|DorianGray]]
::::Agree with DG up above. It's a seperate instance of the same character, the original footage is stopped so that he can make a point and resume. They are in fact the same Strong Bad so it is not an instance of twin characters. Maybe the description should be updated so that it makes more sense. I imagine for the twin characters situation to apply they must react to one another or it must be done in a way so that both characters are in the same scene in "real-time." Or in other words, no pausing the action and then resuming like in this toon.--{{User:Bleed0range/sig}} 05:21, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::::::yea, not twin characters, post-production. {{User:Csours/sig}} 05:38, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== strong mad-nami ==

this might be too vague/general/overanalytical for a fun fact, but strong mad jumping into the pool is similar to the action of a tsunami, ie, you dont see the effect in deep water, only when the wave gets to the shallows does the compression lead to a severe rise in water level. just a thought. {{User:Csours/sig}} 05:21, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

It is too overanalytical. But we can make it better:

The way the tidal wave behaves is similar to the behavior of a [[wikipedia:Tsunami|Tsunami]].
[[User:Foxtrotblues|
- Foxtrotblues]] 23:36, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

==Left-handed?==

When Strong Bad says "Gimme a high five" he raises his left hand. Could this possibly mean he left-handed. Being right-handed, I find it fairly uncomfortable to high five with my left hand. {{User:Cutepetsrus/sig}} 19:05, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
: Although I'm personally of the persuasion that TBC just don't bother keeping track, the consensus here is that Strong Bad is [[Left Handedness|ambidextrous]] (like me!) --{{User:Jay/sig}} 19:10, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

::Being so versatile on the computer, I'd imagine he would be!
[[User:Foxtrotblues|
- Foxtrotblues]] 23:40, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Tomby, Dick and harry ==

Is Strong Bad's spelling of tom B as "Tomby" a reference to the videogame character of the same name? - Grover Junior
: No such character, Stu. Perhaps you meant [[Wikipedia:Tomba|Tomba]]? --{{User:Jay/sig}} 20:02, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
::Was about to say, ol' Jaycob but you interrupted my edit, although it is spelled 'Tombi' in some versions, hence my mistake - Grover Junior.

==Total wave or turtle wave?==
What exactly does homestar say at the end of the email? I think he says turtle wave. If he does, then it might a reference to the Kamehameha from Dragonball Z. Thoughts?
[[User:66.65.115.218|66.65.115.218]] 20:54, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

Definitely "toadal" or phonetically similar. {{User:Qermaq/sig}} 23:54, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
: "Reference to the Kamehameha"?! Uh... how? Am I missing something? Anyway, '''total'''. --{{User:Jay/sig}} 23:56, 2 August 2006 (UTC)

== Homestar mixing up words ==

Right now there's an "Inside Reference" that says: "Homestar, as he has done many times, mixes up two words ("total" and "tidal")."

Isn't Homestar mixing up words far too common, general and obvious occurrence to qualify as an Inside Reference? [[User:LitigationMattson|LitigationMattson]] 01:29, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

Strong Badia

LitigationMattson — Tue, 01 Aug 2006 04:21:27 GMT

LitigationMattson: +keep cool

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[[Image:Strongbadia.png|thumb|179px|The landscape of Strong Badia]]
[[Image:Strongbadia in 2 years.png|thumb|The expected landscape of Strong Badia in or around September 2005]]
[[Image:minibeast_sbemail89.png|thumb|Local news in Strong Badia]]
[[Image:stopsign.png|thumb|The Strong Badia stop sign]]

'''Strong Badia''' (also spelled '''Strongbadia''') is the field behind the dumpsters that is ruled over by [[Strong Bad]], though so far these dumpsters remain to be seen. He introduced his monarchy in "[[i rule]]". In "[[colonization]]", he [[Strong Bad Lore|tells the story]] of how it was founded (which took place around the time that the wireless web and energy drinks were invented) when Strong Bad started renting the land from [[Bubs]] so he could put ketchup on his [[Eggs|eggs]].
As seen in email "[[other days]]", Strong Bad gives Strong Badia a firm scrubbing every Thursday for community service due to a prior arrest.

Citizens of Strong Badia include Strong Bad, [[Strong Mad]], [[The Cheat]], the [[Tire]], the [[Stop Sign]], [[General Tso's Chicken]], the ghost of Strong Bad's [[Tandy 400]], and the [[Cinderblock]]. However, the official population of Strong Badia, as recorded on the Stop Sign, is "Tire." Since the tire is inanimate, Strong Badia is completly devoid of any permanent flora or fauna. In the email "[[2 years]]", it was revealed that two years after the email was released, September 2005, the population will have tripled to also include a bundt cake pan and [[Coach Z]] (taking a leak). The Cheat will also have painted a mural on the fence, reading "FIReWORKS or die," and there will be a [[Bottomless Pits|world-class hole]]. Also, the Cinder Block and Sign were to have separated, the [[Tire]] would have "won the title," and Strong Sad would have become whinier. However, none of these events ever came to pass.

The Stop Sign and the Cinderblock serve as an unfinished [[monument]] to Strong Badia's monarch.

Strong Badia also has its own [[local news]] station, "[[Strong Badia Action Cool News 5]]".

As seen in the email "[[little questions]]", Strong Badia is, or at some point was, on very good economic and political terms with Sweden (perhaps even to the point of an alliance).

In the email "[[flag day]]", Strong Bad sings the Strong Badia National Anthem and the flag of Strong Badia is first shown. This anthem later appears on [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits]].

In 2004, [[Homestar Runner|Homestar]] attempted to conquer Strong Badia with his [[Homestarmy]], which at the time consisted of himself, [[Strong Sad]], [[Homsar]], the [[Painting of a guy with a big knife|painting of a guy with a big knife]], and a popcorn maker named [[Frank Bennedetto]]. Homestar made the mistake, however, of trying to recruit Strong Bad, giving Strong Badia plenty of warning of the impending [[The Battle of Strong Badia|Battle of Strong Badia]]. Though Strong Bad was outnumbered almost 2 to 1, Homestar agreed to cancel the invasion because Strong Bad and Strong Mad were playing [[Badminton|badminton]]. The only casualty was Bennedetto, who was seriously wounded and even considered dead after sustaining severe kick trauma.

Strong Badia also has a [[space program]] called [[The Strong Badian Administration of Some Aluminum Foil|SBASAF]], dedicated to the manned [[Duct Tape|taping]] of aluminum foil to [[Cardboard Boxes|cardboard]].

In the e-mail "[[keep cool]]," Strong Bad interrupts his usual reading of the e-mail to explain that Strong Badia consists ''only'' of the field behind the dumpsters and not the many other locations of [[Free Country, USA]]. He may have been driven to do this by e-mailers whose usage of the term "Strong Badia" implied a mistaken belief that it was the name of the whole town.

== See Also: ==
*[[Behind the Fence]]
*[[Strong Bad's Mount RidesPlace USA]]
*[[Strong Badia's Seven Elemental Spirits]]

==Appearances==
<table width="70%">
<autocolumn cols="3" width="33%">
*'''Debut:''' Email [[i rule]]
*Email [[flag day]]
*Email [[your friends]]
*Email [[ghosts]]
*Email [[monster truck]]
*Email [[date]]
*Email [[mile]]
*Email [[2 years]]
*Email [[local news]]
*Email [[colonization]]
*Email [[army]]
*Email [[monument]]
*[[Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon]]
*Email [[theme park]]
*Email [[other days]]
*Email [[pizzaz]]
*Email [[animal]]
*[[Senorial Day]]
*Email [[bottom 10]]
*[[Strong Bad is a Bad Guy]]
*Email [[space program]]
*Email [[myths & legends]]
*[[Kid Speedy]]
*[[Summer Short Shorts]]
*Email [[keep cool]]
</autocolumn>
</table>

[[Category:Places]][[Category:Strong Badia|*]]

Strong Badia

LitigationMattson — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:22:36 GMT

LitigationMattson: reword keep cool paragraph

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|+<big><big>'''Strong Badia'''</big></big>
|-
| align=center colspan=2 |
{| border=0 cellpadding=2 cellspacing=0 style="background:#f9f9f9;"
|-
| align=center | [[Image:sbemail32.PNG|125px|Flag of Strong Badia]] (Strong Badia's National Colors. The Snake and Tire is the Coat of Arms. The background displays the Strongbadian landscape with a red sky.)
|}
|-
| colspan=2 align=center |
|-
| '''Language''' || [[Wikipedia:English language|English]]
|-
| '''Monarch''' || [[Strong Bad]]
|-
| '''Population''' || [[Tire]]
|-
| '''National anthem''' || "[[Strong Badia National Anthem]]"
|-
| '''[[space program|Space Program]]''' || [[The Strong Badian Administration of Some Aluminum Foil]] (SBASAF)
|}

[[Image:Strongbadia.png|thumb|179px|The landscape of Strong Badia]]
[[Image:Strongbadia in 2 years.png|thumb|The expected landscape of Strong Badia in or around September 2005]]
[[Image:minibeast_sbemail89.png|thumb|Local news in Strong Badia]]
[[Image:stopsign.png|thumb|The Strong Badia stop sign]]

'''Strong Badia''' (also spelled '''Strongbadia''') is the field behind the dumpsters that is ruled over by [[Strong Bad]], though so far these dumpsters remain to be seen. He introduced his monarchy in "[[i rule]]". In "[[colonization]]", he [[Strong Bad Lore|tells the story]] of how it was founded (which took place around the time that the wireless web and energy drinks were invented) when Strong Bad started renting the land from [[Bubs]] so he could put ketchup on his [[Eggs|eggs]].
As seen in email "[[other days]]", Strong Bad gives Strong Badia a firm scrubbing every Thursday for community service due to a prior arrest.

Citizens of Strong Badia include Strong Bad, [[Strong Mad]], [[The Cheat]], the [[Tire]], the [[Stop Sign]], [[General Tso's Chicken]], the ghost of Strong Bad's [[Tandy 400]], and the [[Cinderblock]]. However, the official population of Strong Badia, as recorded on the Stop Sign, is "Tire." Since the tire is inanimate, Strong Badia is completly devoid of any permanent flora or fauna. In the email "[[2 years]]", it was revealed that two years after the email was released, September 2005, the population will have tripled to also include a bundt cake pan and [[Coach Z]] (taking a leak). The Cheat will also have painted a mural on the fence, reading "FIReWORKS or die," and there will be a [[Bottomless Pits|world-class hole]]. Also, the Cinder Block and Sign were to have separated, the [[Tire]] would have "won the title," and Strong Sad would have become whinier. However, none of these events ever came to pass.

The Stop Sign and the Cinderblock serve as an unfinished [[monument]] to Strong Badia's monarch.

Strong Badia also has its own [[local news]] station, "[[Strong Badia Action Cool News 5]]".

As seen in the email "[[little questions]]", Strong Badia is, or at some point was, on very good economic and political terms with Sweden (perhaps even to the point of an alliance).

In the email "[[flag day]]", Strong Bad sings the Strong Badia National Anthem and the flag of Strong Badia is first shown. This anthem later appears on [[Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits]].

In 2004, [[Homestar Runner|Homestar]] attempted to conquer Strong Badia with his [[Homestarmy]], which at the time consisted of himself, [[Strong Sad]], [[Homsar]], the [[Painting of a guy with a big knife|painting of a guy with a big knife]], and a popcorn maker named [[Frank Bennedetto]]. Homestar made the mistake, however, of trying to recruit Strong Bad, giving Strong Badia plenty of warning of the impending [[The Battle of Strong Badia|Battle of Strong Badia]]. Though Strong Bad was outnumbered almost 2 to 1, Homestar agreed to cancel the invasion because Strong Bad and Strong Mad were playing [[Badminton|badminton]]. The only casualty was Bennedetto, who was seriously wounded and even considered dead after sustaining severe kick trauma.

Strong Badia also has a [[space program]] called [[The Strong Badian Administration of Some Aluminum Foil|SBASAF]], dedicated to the manned [[Duct Tape|taping]] of aluminum foil to [[Cardboard Boxes|cardboard]].

In the e-mail "[[keep cool]]," Strong Bad interrupts his usual reading of the e-mail to explain that Strong Badia consists ''only'' of the field behind the dumpsters and not the many other locations of [[Free Country, USA]]. He may have been driven to do this by e-mailers whose usage of the term "Strong Badia" implied a mistaken belief that it was the name of the whole town.

== See Also: ==
*[[Behind the Fence]]
*[[Strong Bad's Mount RidesPlace USA]]
*[[Strong Badia's Seven Elemental Spirits]]

==Appearances==
<table width="70%">
<autocolumn cols="3" width="33%">
*'''Debut:''' Email [[i rule]]
*Email [[flag day]]
*Email [[your friends]]
*Email [[ghosts]]
*Email [[monster truck]]
*Email [[date]]
*Email [[mile]]
*Email [[2 years]]
*Email [[local news]]
*Email [[colonization]]
*Email [[army]]
*Email [[monument]]
*[[Strong Bad is in Jail Cartoon]]
*Email [[theme park]]
*Email [[other days]]
*Email [[pizzaz]]
*Email [[animal]]
*[[Senorial Day]]
*Email [[bottom 10]]
*[[Strong Bad is a Bad Guy]]
*Email [[space program]]
*Email [[myths & legends]]
*[[Kid Speedy]]
*[[Summer Short Shorts]]
</autocolumn>
</table>

[[Category:Places]][[Category:Strong Badia|*]]

keep cool

LitigationMattson — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:15:33 GMT

LitigationMattson: /* Inside References */

{{sbenav|154|redesign|some kinda robot}}

[[Strong Bad]] explains how he keeps cool in the summer.

[[Image:Keep_cool.PNG|thumb|"Pool Time!"]]

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Pom Pom}}, {{Film|The Poopsmith}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strong Badia]], [[Bubs Concession Stand]], [[The Stick]], [[The Brick Wall]], [[Marzipan's House]], [[Swimming Pool]]

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' July 31, 2006

'''Running Time:''' 3:33

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

==Transcript==

{{inprogress}}

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{rapping}'' I'll take you back to a time when e-mail was king! ''{brings up the email}''

<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>subject: Oh man,,,</div>
How hot is it right now in Strongbadia? We're boiling over 
here. What do you do to keep cool? 
 
Tom B 
Sunnydale, CA
</blockquote>

''{After "Strongbadia", a record scratches, the screen dims and another Strong Bad appears.}''

'''SECOND STRONG BAD:''' Note to viewers:

''{Screen cuts to Strongbadia. A cutout in the shape of Strong Bad labeled "SB" is shown.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ''This'' is Strongbadia.

''{Screen cuts to Bubs' Concession Stand, with a similar cutout for Bubs labeled "bubs".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Not this...

''{Screen cuts to Strong Bad's basement, with a cutout of Strong Mad labeled "graw mad".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ... this...

''{Screen cuts to The Stick, with a cutout of Homestar labeled "ds".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ... or this.

''{Cut back to Strongbadia.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Just this.

''{Cut back to the still-dimmed Lappy.}''

'''SECOND STRONG BAD:''' We clear? Now gimme five.

''{The second Strong Bad holds up his left hand, and then disappears as the rest of the screen returns to normal and the original Strong Bad finishes reading the email. He reads "Tom B" as "Tomby" and "CA" as "Cactus Area."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' I'm not exactly sure how hot it is round here, Tomby. But we do have an old-timey, made-uppy, no-worky way of finding out.

''{Cut to Strong Sad, sleeping on a brick wall. A book labeled "Mr. Chekhov" is next to him.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' We carefully place a spoonful...

''{Strong Bad and Strong Mad rise from behind Strong Sad, and Strong Bad places a spoon of sauce on Strong Sad's head.}

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ... of hoisin sauce on Strong Sad's disturbing soft-serve flip. And then we just... ask him.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey!

''{Strong Bad hits Strong Sad, who wakes up.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Trundle bed. How hot it is right now?

'''STRONG SAD:''' Current temperature: ninety-seven, ninety-eight degrees. Humidity: twenty-five percent. ''{Strong Bad and Strong Mad slowly start to leave, making a tapping noise as they do.}'' Barometric pressure: thirty point oh five inches mercury. I'm gonna eat this spoonful of hoisin sauce.

''{Strong Sad grabs the spoon from off his head and eats the sauce. Cut to the edge of the wall, where Strong Bad and Strong Mad are standing.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You hear that?! The high nineties!

''{Strong Bad pulls out a paper titled "Monkey D's Summer Tips". The screen cuts to a closeup of the paper.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You know what that means!

''{Cut to Strong Bad and Strong Mad. Music starts.}''

'''STRONG BAD AND STRONG MAD:''' COOL TIME, POOL TIME!!!

'''STRONG BAD:''' It's the pool that we've always had... that we use all the time... and the school has always had an elevator!

''{Cut to Marzipan's couch. Marzipan is sitting on it. Homestar Runner pops up in the foreground.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Cool time!

'''MARZIPAN:''' Pool time!

''{Cut to Bubs' Concession Stand, where Coach Z is leaning on the counter.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Cool time?

'''BUBS:''' Pool time!

''{Cut to the Field, where Pom Pom and The Poopsmith are standing.}''

'''POM POM:''' ''{bubbles}''

''{The Poopsmith gives him the thumbs-up. Cut to the Pool. Strong Bad is sitting in the lifeguard's chair. Coach Z walks past in the background with a barrel over him. Bubs floats with inflatable toys on his arms. The Cheat skims across the surface of the water quickly twice. Cut to a closeup on Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' All right, ya little sacks of crap, just so I never have to use this weird foamy thing, ''{He kicks a floatation device hanging from his perch.}'' lemme 'splain the pool rules.

''{A paper reading "POOL RULES" appears. Strong Bad reads along.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Welcome to our 'ool. (Notice there is no "Take a crap in it" in it. Please keep it that way. 

''{Cut to The Poopsmith, wearing a [[Nebulon]] flotation device and testing the water with his foot.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Poopsmith, don't even try it.

''{A Nebulon-esque sound is heard as The Poopsmith hangs his head. Cut back to Strong Bad. The Pool Rules sheet returns, and the following rules get added with illustrations as Strong Bad mentions them.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Also, no rough-horsing, no house-rousing, no butt-patting.

'''COACH Z:''' ''{offscreen}'' Aw, nuts!

'''STRONG BAD:''' And no running, no diving, no swimming.

''{Cut back to Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' But that last one is not very widely enforced. But most importantly, after you eat, wait three full days, get a complete physical, have an ear-candling, and press UP, A and START before reentering the pool.

'''MARZIPAN:''' Strong Bad, what did you put in this pool water?

''{Strong Bad looks at Marzipan, whose ponytail has a green tinge and the very tip of it is burning away. The burning is slowly making its way up her ponytail, burning it off during the whole scene.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I dunno. Chemicals. Whatever was in the sink.

''{Cut to a pile of chemical containers and some Awesome Sauce.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You gotta put chemicals in the pool, right? It's what they say. ''(Pause)'' In fact, that is ''all'' what they say.

==Easter Eggs==
* Click on CA when Strong Bad says "Sunnyvale, Cactus Area" to see a menu:

<blockquote>
Cactus Area 
"The most boring Mexican restaurant on Earth" 

(Yes, we know what salsa is now!)</blockquote>

* Click on the Lappy's screen at the end to see Strong Sad continuing his weather forecast:

:'''STRONG SAD:''' Wind south, southwest at 10 miles per hour. Sunset at 8:45 PM. ''{the King of Town slowly comes up behind him}'' Baseball games at two and, uh, three. ''{King of Town puts a cherry on Strong Sad's head and pulls out a can of "Lard Wipt"}''

==Fun Facts==
{{checkstuffpage}}
===Explanations===
*Strong Bad's explanation that Strong Badia consists only of the vacant lot he claimed as his own is probably for the benefit of e-mailers and others who mistakenly think that "Strong Badia," rather than [[Free Country, USA]], is the name for the region where he and the rest of the gang live.
*[[Wikipedia:Ear candling|Ear candling]], also known as ear coning, is a folk remedy performed by sticking a candle in a person's ear and lighting it in order to remove earwax and accumulated debris.

===Inside References===
*The "ds" on the Homestar cutout probably stands for "Duckshirt," the name Strong Bad uses for Homestar in [[flashback]].
*Awesome Sauce is a reference to [[funny]].
*The Poopsmith uses a [[Nebulon]] floating tube.
**When Strong Bad tells The Poopsmith that he can't get in the pool, we hear the Nebulon sound effect.
*Strong Bad previously fell through the roof in [[pom pom]].
*Graw Mad is a reference to [[the facts]].
*The disk in the [[Floppy Disk Container|floppy disk container]] is the same one found in [[disconnected]].
*Strong Bad's tan lines were first seen in [[lures & jigs]].
*The Cheat looks inflated in the pool, a reference to [[helium]].

===Real-World References===
*Strong Sad's book reads "Mr. Chekhov", a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Russia|Russian]] writer and physician [[Wikipedia:Anton Chekhov|Anton Chekhov]].
*The second item on "[[Monkey Dude]]'s Summer tips" is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Slip_'N_Slide|Slip_'N_Slide]] water toy.
*Strong Bad's advice to "press UP, A and START before reentering the pool" is a reference to the [[Nintendo|NES]] game [[Wikipedia:Metroid|Metroid]], in which the game's progress can be saved with a password by pausing (pressing "START") on the first controller and simultaneously pressing "UP" and "A" on the second controller.

==External Links==
{{sbemailextlinks|154|433786}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

keep cool

LitigationMattson — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:14:14 GMT

LitigationMattson: /* Inside References */ ds = duckshirt

{{sbenav|154|redesign|some kinda robot}}

[[Strong Bad]] explains how he keeps cool in the summer.

[[Image:Keep_cool.PNG|thumb|"Pool Time!"]]

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Pom Pom}}, {{Film|The Poopsmith}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|The King of Town}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strong Badia]], [[Bubs Concession Stand]], [[The Stick]], [[The Brick Wall]], [[Marzipan's House]], [[Swimming Pool]]

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' July 31, 2006

'''Running Time:''' 3:33

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

==Transcript==

{{inprogress}}

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{rapping}'' I'll take you back to a time when e-mail was king! ''{brings up the email}''

<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>subject: Oh man,,,</div>
How hot is it right now in Strongbadia? We're boiling over 
here. What do you do to keep cool? 
 
Tom B 
Sunnydale, CA
</blockquote>

''{After "Strongbadia", a record scratches, the screen dims and another Strong Bad appears.}''

'''SECOND STRONG BAD:''' Note to viewers:

''{Screen cuts to Strongbadia. A cutout in the shape of Strong Bad labeled "SB" is shown.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ''This'' is Strongbadia.

''{Screen cuts to Bubs' Concession Stand, with a similar cutout for Bubs labeled "bubs".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Not this...

''{Screen cuts to Strong Bad's basement, with a cutout of Strong Mad labeled "graw mad".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ... this...

''{Screen cuts to The Stick, with a cutout of Homestar labeled "ds".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ... or this.

''{Cut back to Strongbadia.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Just this.

''{Cut back to the still-dimmed Lappy.}''

'''SECOND STRONG BAD:''' We clear? Now gimme five.

''{The second Strong Bad holds up his left hand, and then disappears as the rest of the screen returns to normal and the original Strong Bad finishes reading the email. He reads "Tom B" as "Tomby" and "CA" as "Cactus Area."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' I'm not exactly sure how hot it is round here, Tomby. But we do have an old-timey, made-uppy, no-worky way of finding out.

''{Cut to Strong Sad, sleeping on a brick wall. A book labeled "Mr. Chekhov" is next to him.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' We carefully place a spoonful...

''{Strong Bad and Strong Mad rise from behind Strong Sad, and Strong Bad places a spoon of sauce on Strong Sad's head.}

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ... of hoisin sauce on Strong Sad's disturbing soft-serve flip. And then we just... ask him.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey!

''{Strong Bad hits Strong Sad, who wakes up.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Trundle bed. How hot it is right now?

'''STRONG SAD:''' Current temperature: ninety-seven, ninety-eight degrees. Humidity: twenty-five percent. ''{Strong Bad and Strong Mad slowly start to leave, making a tapping noise as they do.}'' Barometric pressure: thirty point oh five inches mercury. I'm gonna eat this spoonful of hoisin sauce.

''{Strong Sad grabs the spoon from off his head and eats the sauce. Cut to the edge of the wall, where Strong Bad and Strong Mad are standing.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You hear that?! The high nineties!

''{Strong Bad pulls out a paper titled "Monkey D's Summer Tips". The screen cuts to a closeup of the paper.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You know what that means!

''{Cut to Strong Bad and Strong Mad. Music starts.}''

'''STRONG BAD AND STRONG MAD:''' COOL TIME, POOL TIME!!!

'''STRONG BAD:''' It's the pool that we've always had... that we use all the time... and the school has always had an elevator!

''{Cut to Marzipan's couch. Marzipan is sitting on it. Homestar Runner pops up in the foreground.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Cool time!

'''MARZIPAN:''' Pool time!

''{Cut to Bubs' Concession Stand, where Coach Z is leaning on the counter.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Cool time?

'''BUBS:''' Pool time!

''{Cut to the Field, where Pom Pom and The Poopsmith are standing.}''

'''POM POM:''' ''{bubbles}''

''{The Poopsmith gives him the thumbs-up. Cut to the Pool. Strong Bad is sitting in the lifeguard's chair. Coach Z walks past in the background with a barrel over him. Bubs floats with inflatable toys on his arms. The Cheat skims across the surface of the water quickly twice. Cut to a closeup on Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' All right, ya little sacks of crap, just so I never have to use this weird foamy thing, ''{He kicks a floatation device hanging from his perch.}'' lemme 'splain the pool rules.

''{A paper reading "POOL RULES" appears. Strong Bad reads along.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Welcome to our 'ool. (Notice there is no "Take a crap in it" in it. Please keep it that way. 

''{Cut to The Poopsmith, wearing a [[Nebulon]] flotation device and testing the water with his foot.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Poopsmith, don't even try it.

''{A Nebulon-esque sound is heard as The Poopsmith hangs his head. Cut back to Strong Bad. The Pool Rules sheet returns, and the following rules get added with illustrations as Strong Bad mentions them.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Also, no rough-horsing, no house-rousing, no butt-patting.

'''COACH Z:''' ''{offscreen}'' Aw, nuts!

'''STRONG BAD:''' And no running, no diving, no swimming.

''{Cut back to Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' But that last one is not very widely enforced. But most importantly, after you eat, wait three full days, get a complete physical, have an ear-candling, and press UP, A and START before reentering the pool.

'''MARZIPAN:''' Strong Bad, what did you put in this pool water?

''{Strong Bad looks at Marzipan, whose ponytail has a green tinge and the very tip of it is burning away. The burning is slowly making its way up her ponytail, burning it off during the whole scene.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' I dunno. Chemicals. Whatever was in the sink.

''{Cut to a pile of chemical containers and some Awesome Sauce.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You gotta put chemicals in the pool, right? It's what they say. ''(Pause)'' In fact, that is ''all'' what they say.

==Easter Eggs==
* Click on CA when Strong Bad says "Sunnyvale, Cactus Area" to see a menu:

<blockquote>
Cactus Area 
"The most boring Mexican restaurant on Earth" 

(Yes, we know what salsa is now!)</blockquote>

* Click on the Lappy's screen at the end to see Strong Sad continuing his weather forecast:

:'''STRONG SAD:''' Wind south, southwest at 10 miles per hour. Sunset at 8:45 PM. ''{the King of Town slowly comes up behind him}'' Baseball games at two and, uh, three. ''{King of Town puts a cherry on Strong Sad's head and pulls out a can of "Lard Wipt"}''

==Fun Facts==
{{checkstuffpage}}
===Explanations===
*Strong Bad's explanation that Strong Badia consists only of the vacant lot he claimed as his own is probably for the benefit of e-mailers and others who mistakenly think that "Strong Badia," rather than [[Free Country, USA]], is the name for the region where he and the rest of the gang live.
*[[Wikipedia:Ear candling|Ear candling]], also known as ear coning, is a folk remedy performed by sticking a candle in a person's ear and lighting it in order to remove earwax and accumulated debris.

===Inside References===
*The "ds" on the Homestar cutout probably stands for "Duckshirt," the name Strong Bad uses for Homestar in [[flashback]].*Awesome Sauce is a reference to [[funny]].
*The Poopsmith uses a [[Nebulon]] floating tube.
**When Strong Bad tells The Poopsmith that he can't get in the pool, we hear the Nebulon sound effect.
*Strong Bad previously fell through the roof in [[pom pom]].
*Graw Mad is a reference to [[the facts]].
*The disk in the [[Floppy Disk Container|floppy disk container]] is the same one found in [[disconnected]].
*Strong Bad's tan lines were first seen in [[lures & jigs]].
*The Cheat looks inflated in the pool, a reference to [[helium]].

===Real-World References===
*Strong Sad's book reads "Mr. Chekhov", a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Russia|Russian]] writer and physician [[Wikipedia:Anton Chekhov|Anton Chekhov]].
*The second item on "[[Monkey Dude]]'s Summer tips" is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Slip_'N_Slide|Slip_'N_Slide]] water toy.
*Strong Bad's advice to "press UP, A and START before reentering the pool" is a reference to the [[Nintendo|NES]] game [[Wikipedia:Metroid|Metroid]], in which the game's progress can be saved with a password by pausing (pressing "START") on the first controller and simultaneously pressing "UP" and "A" on the second controller.

==External Links==
{{sbemailextlinks|154|433786}}

{{Strong Bad Email}}

Talk:keep cool

LitigationMattson — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 21:05:05 GMT

LitigationMattson: /* DS? */

Talk:keep cool

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[[Strong Bad]] explains how he keeps cool in the summer.

[[Image:Keep_cool.PNG|thumb|"Pool Time!"]]

'''Cast (in order of appearance):''' {{Film|Strong Bad}}, {{Film|Bubs}}, {{Film|Strong Mad}}, {{Film|Homestar Runner}}, {{Film|Strong Sad}}, {{Film|Marzipan}}, {{Film|Coach Z}}, {{Film|Pom Pom}}, {{Film|Poopsmith}}, {{Film|The Cheat}}, {{Film|King of Town}}

'''Places:''' [[Computer Room]], [[Strong Badia]], [[Bubs Concession Stand]], [[The Stick]], [[The Brick Wall]], [[Marzipan's House]], [[Swimming Pool]]

{{Comp|Lappy 486}}

'''Date:''' July 31, 2006

'''Running Time:''' 3:33

'''Page Title:''' Lappy 486

==Transcript==

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'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{rapping}'' I'll take you back to a time when e-mail was king! ''{brings up the email}''

<blockquote class="lappy email">
<div>subject: Oh man,,,</div>
How hot is it right now in Strongbadia? We're boiling over 
here. What do you do to keep cool? 
 
Tom B 
Sunnydale, CA
</blockquote>

''{After "Strongbadia", a record scratches, the screen dims and another Strong Bad appears.}''

'''SECOND STRONG BAD:''' Note to viewers:

''{Screen cuts to Strongbadia. A cutout in the shape of Strong Bad labeled "SB" is shown.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ''This'' is Strongbadia.

''{Screen cuts to Bubs' Concession Stand, with a similar cutout for Bubs labeled "bubs".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Not this...

''{Screen cuts to Strong Bad's basement, with a cutout of Strong Mad labeled "graw mad".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ... this...

''{Screen cuts to The Stick, with a cutout of Homestar labeled "ds".}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ... or this.

''{Cut back to Strongbadia.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' Just this.

''{Cut back to the still-dimmed Lappy.}''

'''SECOND STRONG BAD:''' We clear? Now gimme five.

''{The second Strong Bad holds up his left hand, and then disappears as the rest of the screen returns to normal and the original Strong Bad finishes reading the email. He reads "Tom B" as "Tomby" and "CA" as "Cactus Area."}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{typing}'' I'm not exactly sure how hot it is round here, Tomby. But we do have an old-timey, made-uppy, no-worky way of finding out.

''{Cut to Strong Sad, sleeping on a brick wall. A book labeled "Mr. Chekhov" is next to him.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' We carefully place a spoonful...

''{Strong Bad and Strong Mad rise from behind Strong Sad, and Strong Bad places a spoon of sauce on Strong Sad's head.}

'''STRONG BAD:''' ''{voiceover}'' ... of hoisin sauce on Strong Sad's disturbing soft-serve flip. And then we just... ask him.

'''STRONG BAD:''' Hey!

''{Strong Bad hits Strong Sad, who wakes up.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Trundle bed. How hot it is right now?

'''STRONG SAD:''' Current temperature: ninety-seven, ninety-eight degrees. Humidity: twenty-five percent. ''{Strong Bad and Strong Mad slowly start to leave, making a tapping noise as they do.}'' Barometric pressure: thirty point oh five inches mercury. I'm gonna eat this spoonful of hoisin sauce.

''{Strong Sad grabs the spoon from off his head and eats the sauce. Cut to the edge of the wall, where Strong Bad and Strong Mad are standing.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You hear that?! The high nineties!

''{Strong Bad pulls out a paper titled "Monkey D's Summer Tips". The screen cuts to a closeup of the paper.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' You know what that means!

''{Cut to Strong Bad and Strong Mad. Music starts.}''

'''STRONG BAD AND STRONG MAD:''' COOL TIME, POOL TIME!!!

'''STRONG BAD:''' It's the pool that we've always had... that we use all the time... and the school has always had an elevator!

''{Cut to Marzipan's couch. Marzipan is sitting on it. Homestar Runner pops up in the foreground.}''

'''HOMESTAR RUNNER:''' Cool time!

'''MARZIPAN:''' Pool time!

''{Cut to Bubs' Concession Stand, where Coach Z is leaning on the counter.}''

'''COACH Z:''' Cool time?

'''BUBS:''' Pool time!

''{Cut to the Field, where Pom Pom and The Poopsmith are standing.}''

'''POM POM:''' ''{bubbles}''

''{The Poopsmith gives him the thumbs-up. Cut to the Pool. Strong Bad is sitting in the lifeguard's chair. Coach Z walks past in the background with a barrel over him. Bubs floats with inflatable toys on his arms. The Cheat skims across the surface of the water quickly twice. Cut to a closeup on Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' All right, ya little sacks of crap, just so I never have to use this weird foamy thing, ''{He kicks a floatation device hanging from his perch.}'' lemme 'splain the pool rules.

''{A paper reading "POOL RULES" appears. Strong Bad reads along.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Welcome to our 'ool. (Notice there is no "Take a crap in it" in it. Please keep it that way. 

''{Cut to The Poopsmith, wearing a [[Nebulon]] flotation device and testing the water with his foot.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Poopsmith, don't even try it.

''{A Nebulon-esque sound is heard as The Poopsmith hangs his head. Cut back to Strong Bad. The Pool Rules sheet returns, and the following rules get added with illustrations as Strong Bad mentions them.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' Also, no rough-horsing, no house-rousing, no butt-patting.

'''COACH Z:''' ''{offscreen}'' Aw, nuts!

'''STRONG BAD:''' And no running, no diving, no swimming.

''{Cut back to Strong Bad.}''

'''STRONG BAD:''' But that last one is not very widely enforced. But most importantly, after you eat, wait three full days, get a complete physical, have an ear-candling, and press UP, A and START before you go back in the pool.

'''MARZIPAN:''' Strong Bad, what did you put in this pool water?

''{Strong Bad looks at Marzipan, whose ponytail has a green tinge and the very tip of it is burning away. The burning is slowly making its way up her ponytail, burning it off during the whole scene.}''

==Easter Eggs==
* Click on CA when Strong Bad says "Sunnyvale, Cactus Area" to see a menu:

<blockquote>
Cactus Area 
"The most boring Mexican restaurant on Earth" 

(Yes, we know what salsa is now!)</blockquote>

* Click on the Lappy's screen at the end to see Strong Sad continuing his weather forecast:

:'''STRONG SAD:''' Wind south, southwest at 10 miles per hour. Sunset at 8:45 PM. ''{the King of Town slowly comes up behind him}'' Baseball games at two and, uh, three. ''{King of Town puts a cherry on Strong Sad's head and pulls out a can of "Lard Wipt"}''

==Fun Facts==
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===Explanations===
*Strong Bad's explanation that Strong Badia consists only of the vacant lot he claimed as his own is probably for the benefit of e-mailers and others who mistakenly think that "Strong Badia," rather than [[Free Country, USA]], is the name for the region where he and the rest of the gang live.
*[[Wikipedia:Ear candling|Ear candling]], also known as ear coning, is a folk remedy performed by sticking a candle in a person's ear and lighting it in order to remove earwax and accumulated debris.

===Inside References===
*Awesome Sauce is a reference to [[funny]].
*The Poopsmith uses a [[Nebulon]] floating tube.
**When Strong Bad tells The Poopsmith that he can't get in the pool, we hear the Nebulon sound effect.
*Strong Bad previously fell through the roof in [[pom pom]].
*Graw Mad is a reference to [[the facts]].
*The disk in the [[Floppy Disk Container|floppy disk container]] is the same one found in [[disconnected]].
*Strong Bad's tan lines were first seen in [[fishing]].
*"ds" on the [[Homestarrunner]] cutout probably refers to [[Duck Shirt]], the nickname [[Strongbad]] calls HR in [[flashback]].

===Real-World References===
*Strong Sad's book reads "Mr. Chekhov", a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Russia|Russian]] writer and physician [[Wikipedia:Anton Chekhov|Anton Chekhov]].
*The second item on "[[Monkey Dude]]'s Summer tips" is a reference to the [[Wikipedia:Slip_'N_Slide|Slip_'N_Slide]] water toy.

==External Links==
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